We learn more about the Order itself and its precarious politics, including how little agency Bree has despite nominally being the king. So on the one hand, Bree has a bunch of demons trying to kill her and plunge the world into darkness, and on the other hand, the so-called good guys want her locked away too.īloodmarked immediately opens up the world and lore of this series in all directions. And there’s also a lot of politics at play. The existing power structure of the Order isn’t thrilled by this news, mostly because Bree is a young, Black woman and they are a bunch of racists. Oh, and she herself is the descendant of King Arthur, whose spirit has awakened within her so she can lead the Order in a climactic battle against the Shadowborn. Spoilers in this review for the first book but not for this book.īree Matthews discovered at the start of her first year of Early College that an ancient Order descended from King Arthur’s Round Table exists and fights demonic creatures. If Legendborn scratched my itch for nostalgic YA fiction but with better diversity and racial awareness, then Bloodmarked doubled down on the itch-scratching while truly establishing the Legendborn Cycle as a titanic, powerful, and truly memorable fantasy series. Tracy Deonn bottles lightning again in this novel: it’s everything you might want a sequel to be.
I enjoyed Legendborn so much that I was very happy I borrowed its sequel, Bloodmarked, at the same time. Sometimes it’s nice to be late to a new series.
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