Review: The Bird and The Blade

Title: The Bird and the Blade

Author:Megan Bannen

Publisher: Blazer + Bray

Pages:336

Synopsis:(from GoodReads)

As a slave in the Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home,

her family, her freedom … until she finds herself an unlikely conspirator in the escape

of Prince Khalaf and his irascible father as they flee from their enemies across the vast

Mongol Empire. On the run, with adversaries on all sides and an endless journey ahead,

Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks’ exile to return home, a plan that becomes

increasingly fraught as her feelings for Khalaf evolve into a hopeless love.

3/ 5 stars

This was not one of my favorite reads so far this year. I felt it was quite similar

to books I’ve read before. Family of a girl with status falls on hard times, girl

becomes a slave to hide identity. Prince gives her an apple, she falls in love with

him over time. Down the road truth is told and she’s actually supposed to kill him.

She cannot bring herself to kill him, he actually loves her too, but she kills herself in

attempt to save him.

It was also very slow then faster paced then slow again, wasn’t a steady flow

of keeping me interested.