“I don’t want an easy life. I want a meaningful one.”
Summary
Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It’s the highest honor they could hope for…and the most demeaning. This year, there’s a ninth. And instead of paper, she’s made of fire.
In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it’s Lei they’re after — the girl with the golden eyes whose rumored beauty has piqued the king’s interest.
Over weeks of training in the opulent but oppressive palace, Lei and eight other girls learns the skills and charm that befit a king’s consort. There, she does the unthinkable — she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens her world’s entire way of life. Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide how far she’s willing to go for justice and revenge.
Review
This book was absolutely beautiful. It was dark and lush, and just spoke to me. There was beauty in every paper page I turned. The romance in the book developed slowly and naturally (and for once, it did not give me Stockholm Syndrome vibes). The world building is rich and the struggles of the characters are real and deep and true. It feels like a retelling of a true story.
“They can take and break and steal all they want, but there is one thing they have no control over. Our emotions. Our feelings. Our thoughts. None of them will ever be able to control the way we feel. Our minds and hearts are our own. That is our power, Nine. Never forget it.”
If you know me at all, you know that this story is my vibe. It really isn’t any surprise that I liked it, but truthfully it was so much more than I expected. There was so much more depth and humanity in the characters than I expected. It was just a magical lovely experience.
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