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Defiance by C.J. Redwine

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Defiance by C.J. Redwine

I LOVED this book! Fast paced, brimming with action, a strong, feisty female protagonist and a dragon that puts all the dragons that came before to shame. What’s not to love?

I could not put this book down. Inventing excuses to make time to read, I devoured this book from the opening sentence “The weight of their pity is like a stone tied around my neck…” to the breathtaking end and was left wanting more. There is a sure way of telling if you truly love an author’s style of writing – when you continue to read their four page acknowledgements at the end of the book, where they thank people who you don’t know or care about, just because you can’t believe the story is really over.

Go and get this book today! My copy is going on my favourites shelf.5 Star

Recommended age: 13 +

Defiance
Title: Defiance
Series: Courier’s Daughter – Book 1Defiance
Author: C.J. Redwine
Publication Date: 28 August 2012
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Source: Purchased

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While the other girls in the walled city-state of Baalboden learn to sew and dance, Rachel Adams learns to track and hunt. While they bend like reeds to the will of their male Protectors, she uses hers for sparring practice.

When Rachel’s father fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the city’s brutal Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector: her father’s apprentice, Logan—the boy she declared her love to and who turned her down two years before. Left with nothing but fierce belief in her father’s survival, Rachel decides to escape and find him herself.

As Rachel and Logan battle their way through the Wasteland, stalked by a monster that can’t be killed and an army of assassins out for blood, they discover romance, heartbreak, and a truth that will incite a war decades in the making. — Extract from Goodreads.com

2 Comments

  1. Ooh, your review is fabulous. This book has been sitting on my shelf for ages, but I think it’s time for me to move it up in the TBR pile. Love strong female characters so this one sounds like a book I’d really enjoy!

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