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Disclaimer: An eARC was provided via Wednesday Books and the Author as part of the Blog Tour. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.

Oh I had such a fun time reading this one - give me a strong, capable heroine with ambition and a huge well of loyalty within her - and you already have me hooked!

In Golden Fury, we have Thea Hope, a resourceful, intelligent young woman who assists her own brilliant mother in her alchemy quest for Philosopher’s Stone. Her mother, who may be brilliant, but is also cold and cruel when it suits her; and Thea for most oft has gotten used to it! She has never met her own father; and knows that he probably has no idea that she even exists.

But when her mother fall mad due to the Curse of The Philosopher’s Stone - just when she and with the rising tensions between the French and The British, she has no choice but to flee to the only relative she has - her father. There, she gets a chance to actually assist or rather work in the field of alchemy, trying to complete her mother’s work while trying to avoid falling victim to the curse.


Now, this was an interesting and easily read fantasy - the writing style makes it easy for the reader to get hooked into the story - the relationship of Thea with her mother and father is reminiscent of all teenager’s relationship and the story, with the intriguing foundation on alchemy is quite well written and researched!

But where I wanted Thea to be a strong feminist role model, & I am not gonna lie, she was - but she also made such naive and stupid mistakes, over and over again; especially over romantic interests?

Even she was certain about what she wanted from her life and her own ambitions, so it was really frustrating to see her make the same detrimental decisions over and over again!

Which made the experience of enjoying a really unique fantasy debut a little less so! But, if you enjoy a wonderfully written plotline, then I would suggest pick this one up, the author has done quite a good job of researching alchemy and it definitely shows in the plot!



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