The Soulstoy Inheritance Beatrice Harrow Series Book 2 eBook Jane Washington
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“We were both steel butterflies, emerging from our cocoons in spiked armour, ready to tackle the skies.”
Beatrice Harrow grew up in a world where there wasn’t a single place that she belonged, but the world is changing. Now, there is an entire kingdom and an actual ghost—with possible bad intentions—under her care, and she doesn’t know what to do with either of them. Exiled and separated from her friends, she finds herself swept up in the politics of her unwanted kingdom, with mysterious forces working against her at every turn.
It will not be long until the whisperings of war on the horizon become a reality, but the question remains …
Where will she stand?
And who will stand with her?
This is a full, 90,000 word novel. Book #2 of the completed Beatrice Harrow Duology.
The Soulstoy Inheritance Beatrice Harrow Series Book 2 eBook Jane Washington
I spent all night reading this and though I don't remember exactly what happened in the first book, I do think that Washington touched on some of the criticisms I had for the first one and improved on it. That being said, I really do like this book but I would gave it a solid 3.5 stars for reasons I'll get into further. The previous book was about a magical being (synfee) called Beatrice Harrow, who comes into her own or starts a journey thereof while befriending a number of characters. A major event that occurred at the end of the first book makes Beatrice an unwanted figure in the human kingdom in this book, continuing from right after the first book ended. She came into power in the synfee kingdom and this book explores the challenges of being a teenage Queen, unseen forces plotting against her, whether or not she can trust those around her and develops some of the relationships with other characters that was set up before.There are quite a few threads strewn in this book, but a number of them aren't quite explored with enough depth or "time." Namely, this book has poor pacing and the major issues aren't quite given arcs they need to be completely successful on a whole. ***Spoilers warning from here on (side note: I normally don't bother writing in depth reviews of books unless I really loathe them or really like them but want to help the author).
-There's a weird sort of anti-climatic tension where the reader expects that the book would be about Beatrice on the run from the human kingdom, accused as a traitor for killing their King and attempting to kill Hazen, the prince - possibly encountering hostile synfees who want to play on that and dispose of Beatrice from her new throne but it doesn't go there! The issue is resolved quite neatly (or so you think). The upside is that it avoids some of the cliche direction that one would expect but the downside is that it doesn't give enough bulk to the denouement of this aspect. If a whole kingdom is clamoring for a killer/attempted killer and she escapes, there is no way they'd be fine with her coming back to attend their Academy while waiting for a trial...and dropping the whole thing after the trial concludes. The whole plot point regarding this is never mentioned again, missing some opportunities for well rounded villains or grey characters in the human kingdom (for example, a person could have killed her father in revenge for believing she off'd their King. The whole riotous humans who hate her and their group could have been a good thing to establish, a rebellious faction that Hazen has to deal with but it's really mentioned for one chapter and never touched on again).
-Speaking of grey characters, the book never really fleshes out why Leif followed Elias to the end and betrayed Beatrice - setting her up for the whole final showdown. I mean yes, his mind vision speech to Miriam kind of touches on why in that he views no place for a weak/soft person as Beatrice on the throne but it is also insinuated or foreshadowed that he murdered her father. This is never explained quite fully, in that Elias ordered him to do it for the hell of it (being sick and twisted and all) but the driving motivation is weak. There is never any direct confrontation between Leif and Beatrice, thereby robbing any psychological insight into Leif's actions. He is set up to be multi dimensional but ends up being rather one sided - he's an assassin loyal to Elias and played Beatrice because that's what he was expected to do. There's nothing giving any insight to why out of the three brothers, he was loyal to Elias - whether there was any history in his childhood that explains that or something else.
-This brings me to Elias, um...he shows up suddenly and is foreshadowed by Louis the vampire quite shortly. I feel that the pacing between this was too short for the impact it needed. If the truly tainted ones were set up at the beginning, with more sinister encounters that affected the synfee kingdom then there would be that tension that raises the stakes. Instead Beatrice spends a lot of the book "training" which is good because it shows that through hard work and discipline she becomes a stronger fighter but there aren't enough what I would call "mini boss fights or trigger events" (yes too many video games) to show the reader how she is stronger. Instead of a build-up of a journey that gets her to the climax, it's a lull followed by BANG. Though, the twist is worth it - I didn't see it coming for a while and I appreciated the better explored back story about Ashen, Elias and Nareon. Out of all the characters, Nareon is still the most appealing.
-Another issue to do with pacing is that the world building is still tenuous. I find it odd that Beatrice knows absolutely nothing about the world they're in, not even neighboring lands or far off lands. I would assume, at a place called the Academy they teach about world...geography/history...and even in a fantasy world, it's reasonable to assume that there would be explorers or delegates to lands on the same continent. I find it unbelievable that kingdoms don't bother exploring and wouldn't know about nearby conquerors, especially in ones that aren't completely primitive. It's assumed that they only ride horses and fight with medieval weapons and "magic" but hey, Vikings explored and stuffed. But, because of this the sudden introduction of united kingdoms needing to face off a foreign threat comes in too late and the time that would have been needed to pit the issue of dealing with Elias and amassing an army/making peace with neighboring lands something I would have wanted to read about. I think that the material in this book could easily have been separated into two books, had they been stretched out (Beatrice dealing with wrongfully accused of murder while trying to take control of the synfee kingdom, Beatrice dealing with Elias (or unseen threat trying to dispose of her and Beatrice dealing with needing to negotiate with Dom and Louis, maybe convincing people to rally). Dom and Louis are barely developed and there is no back story or who or what the renegades are, their history/culture and their relationship with the synfees.
-Most of the characters aren't developed with enough "personality" aside from maybe Ashen and the three stooges (aka her personal bodyguards). There's an odd, almost awkward tone shift between comedy and ease into sudden ultimate threat. I think Washington has great strength in developing relationships between characters between conservations and light banter, but because the characters themselves lack some depth the impact is lessened. I'll touch on the love "triangle". It was actually kind of hilarious that Harbringer turned out to be married...(I found the mind partner going insane thing interesting, kind of like in Vampire Academy where the shadow kissed partner goes insane) but after that was revealed, he kind of disappears and there's no time really given to what would have been a tragic back story about his wife. I think the Hazen side was good, but could have used slightly more fleshing out.
- Barely developed minor characters: Cereen, Rohan, Flora, Rose, Miriam - they could have used slightly more.
So in conclusion after all my nitpicking, a very good positive is that Beatrice matures. She doesn't give up and she doesn't get fazed out and her personal conflict is that she can never trust others, because she doesn't know whether they truly like her or if it's because of her ability - something I found unique and well developed. From what I remember, it's a strong contrast and the change in her approach after being manipulated isn't really explored with finesse but it does build her progression. She becomes a very likeable character, and the romance subplot was gratifying. Despite the pacing issues and too many plot potentials thrown in and a lack of depth in some areas, I would say that this is one of the more unique and likeable YA fantasy romance books and I read them in bulk so that's saying a lot!
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The Soulstoy Inheritance Beatrice Harrow Series Book 2 eBook Jane Washington Reviews
The culmination of everything happening in the kingdom wraps up nicely. The character depth and growth was outstanding, and the duplicity of some roles left me unable to put down the book until it was finished.
I love her characters and her stories. This series was great read that left me wanting more (as all her books do). She is a wonderful author with much talent. I will be reading anything she puts her name on.
Bea and those around her are fascinating. I wish there were more books at would have lent to drawing out even more details. This world is original and I reccommend getting lost in it!
Sometimes I find that series often have ups and downs and it usually first occurs in book 2- where the author tries to recreate the harmony of book 1. Not so here. No lull in the story or the action. I didn't want to put it down. I look forward to the next.
I cant tell you how much I loved this series. I stayed up all night to finish it! It had a great story and wonderful characters. I really love Bea. I really hope there will be more! My only complaint is that the end felt a bit rushed, but this author is most definitely on my to read everything they write list now!
The first book was better, this was OK some twist but just OK. Her falling in love with Hazen so fast is questionable, along with the fact that his mother and sister mourned Cale yet there is no mention of him feeling a loss. Something about the ending felt so rushed and odd.
Ok, so it took me a while to read the Beatrice Harrow Series, only because I didn't want to touch it. I loved the Seraph Black Series and knew I would love this one too....My feelings are everywhere with this book. Cale?! Why?! I loved him!!! You made me cry. And Leif! My goodness woman...have you no compassion?! I thought he was solid. I wasn't to keen on Ashen at first, but came to like him in the end. It was just too funny, seeing him try to ship Bea and Hazen together. Which I am glad it did happened. I guess I can somewhat forgive you a bit. Just a bit.I'm still hung up on Cale.
A lot of times when reading a book, authors put a quite a bite of descriptive words in to describe wardrobes, rooms, scenery, thoughts going through the characters heads, etc. Many many times I just want to scream because I want the author to get to the heart of the story and. It fill it up with descriptive junk. It drives me nuts.
But, when the descriptions where put in this series, they meant something, it didn't drive me crazy because every word helped to built the plot and build the story.
I enjoyed the characters. They were all strong and not the typical "stupid/emotional" female roles. Every emotion actually meant something and didn't leave you cringing. The male roles where strong and supportive of the females roles. No one was lesser than the other, there was complete appropriate balance.
Each book left me wanting to get to the next book. Now I'm anxious for book three. Please keep the strong characters and the love Bea and Hazen. The potential there . Great supporting characters, and the way the plot was written it was hard to figure out where the author was going with the building of the main and supporting characters, which was a good thing. It kept me wanting more.
I spent all night reading this and though I don't remember exactly what happened in the first book, I do think that Washington touched on some of the criticisms I had for the first one and improved on it. That being said, I really do like this book but I would gave it a solid 3.5 stars for reasons I'll get into further. The previous book was about a magical being (synfee) called Beatrice Harrow, who comes into her own or starts a journey thereof while befriending a number of characters. A major event that occurred at the end of the first book makes Beatrice an unwanted figure in the human kingdom in this book, continuing from right after the first book ended. She came into power in the synfee kingdom and this book explores the challenges of being a teenage Queen, unseen forces plotting against her, whether or not she can trust those around her and develops some of the relationships with other characters that was set up before.
There are quite a few threads strewn in this book, but a number of them aren't quite explored with enough depth or "time." Namely, this book has poor pacing and the major issues aren't quite given arcs they need to be completely successful on a whole. ***Spoilers warning from here on (side note I normally don't bother writing in depth reviews of books unless I really loathe them or really like them but want to help the author).
-There's a weird sort of anti-climatic tension where the reader expects that the book would be about Beatrice on the run from the human kingdom, accused as a traitor for killing their King and attempting to kill Hazen, the prince - possibly encountering hostile synfees who want to play on that and dispose of Beatrice from her new throne but it doesn't go there! The issue is resolved quite neatly (or so you think). The upside is that it avoids some of the cliche direction that one would expect but the downside is that it doesn't give enough bulk to the denouement of this aspect. If a whole kingdom is clamoring for a killer/attempted killer and she escapes, there is no way they'd be fine with her coming back to attend their Academy while waiting for a trial...and dropping the whole thing after the trial concludes. The whole plot point regarding this is never mentioned again, missing some opportunities for well rounded villains or grey characters in the human kingdom (for example, a person could have killed her father in revenge for believing she off'd their King. The whole riotous humans who hate her and their group could have been a good thing to establish, a rebellious faction that Hazen has to deal with but it's really mentioned for one chapter and never touched on again).
-Speaking of grey characters, the book never really fleshes out why Leif followed Elias to the end and betrayed Beatrice - setting her up for the whole final showdown. I mean yes, his mind vision speech to Miriam kind of touches on why in that he views no place for a weak/soft person as Beatrice on the throne but it is also insinuated or foreshadowed that he murdered her father. This is never explained quite fully, in that Elias ordered him to do it for the hell of it (being sick and twisted and all) but the driving motivation is weak. There is never any direct confrontation between Leif and Beatrice, thereby robbing any psychological insight into Leif's actions. He is set up to be multi dimensional but ends up being rather one sided - he's an assassin loyal to Elias and played Beatrice because that's what he was expected to do. There's nothing giving any insight to why out of the three brothers, he was loyal to Elias - whether there was any history in his childhood that explains that or something else.
-This brings me to Elias, um...he shows up suddenly and is foreshadowed by Louis the vampire quite shortly. I feel that the pacing between this was too short for the impact it needed. If the truly tainted ones were set up at the beginning, with more sinister encounters that affected the synfee kingdom then there would be that tension that raises the stakes. Instead Beatrice spends a lot of the book "training" which is good because it shows that through hard work and discipline she becomes a stronger fighter but there aren't enough what I would call "mini boss fights or trigger events" (yes too many video games) to show the reader how she is stronger. Instead of a build-up of a journey that gets her to the climax, it's a lull followed by BANG. Though, the twist is worth it - I didn't see it coming for a while and I appreciated the better explored back story about Ashen, Elias and Nareon. Out of all the characters, Nareon is still the most appealing.
-Another issue to do with pacing is that the world building is still tenuous. I find it odd that Beatrice knows absolutely nothing about the world they're in, not even neighboring lands or far off lands. I would assume, at a place called the Academy they teach about world...geography/history...and even in a fantasy world, it's reasonable to assume that there would be explorers or delegates to lands on the same continent. I find it unbelievable that kingdoms don't bother exploring and wouldn't know about nearby conquerors, especially in ones that aren't completely primitive. It's assumed that they only ride horses and fight with medieval weapons and "magic" but hey, Vikings explored and stuffed. But, because of this the sudden introduction of united kingdoms needing to face off a foreign threat comes in too late and the time that would have been needed to pit the issue of dealing with Elias and amassing an army/making peace with neighboring lands something I would have wanted to read about. I think that the material in this book could easily have been separated into two books, had they been stretched out (Beatrice dealing with wrongfully accused of murder while trying to take control of the synfee kingdom, Beatrice dealing with Elias (or unseen threat trying to dispose of her and Beatrice dealing with needing to negotiate with Dom and Louis, maybe convincing people to rally). Dom and Louis are barely developed and there is no back story or who or what the renegades are, their history/culture and their relationship with the synfees.
-Most of the characters aren't developed with enough "personality" aside from maybe Ashen and the three stooges (aka her personal bodyguards). There's an odd, almost awkward tone shift between comedy and ease into sudden ultimate threat. I think Washington has great strength in developing relationships between characters between conservations and light banter, but because the characters themselves lack some depth the impact is lessened. I'll touch on the love "triangle". It was actually kind of hilarious that Harbringer turned out to be married...(I found the mind partner going insane thing interesting, kind of like in Vampire Academy where the shadow kissed partner goes insane) but after that was revealed, he kind of disappears and there's no time really given to what would have been a tragic back story about his wife. I think the Hazen side was good, but could have used slightly more fleshing out.
- Barely developed minor characters Cereen, Rohan, Flora, Rose, Miriam - they could have used slightly more.
So in conclusion after all my nitpicking, a very good positive is that Beatrice matures. She doesn't give up and she doesn't get fazed out and her personal conflict is that she can never trust others, because she doesn't know whether they truly like her or if it's because of her ability - something I found unique and well developed. From what I remember, it's a strong contrast and the change in her approach after being manipulated isn't really explored with finesse but it does build her progression. She becomes a very likeable character, and the romance subplot was gratifying. Despite the pacing issues and too many plot potentials thrown in and a lack of depth in some areas, I would say that this is one of the more unique and likeable YA fantasy romance books and I read them in bulk so that's saying a lot!
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