Kindle Ï µ Amélie Wen Zhao
In the Cyrilian Empire Affinites are reviled Their varied gifts to control the world around them are unnatural dangerous And Anastacya Mikhailov the crown princess has a terrifying secret Her deadly Affinity to blood is her curse and the reason she has lived her life hidden behind palace walls When Ana’s father the emperor Update So the cover is live Andddd it's time for me to hide and never come on Goodreads again Just kidding Sort of?I wanted to share the Dear Reader letter that we included in the ARCs Advanced Reader Copies of BLOOD HEIR It touches upon why I wrote BLOOD HEIR and who I wrote it forDear ReaderFour years ago I began writing a story about a corrupt empire steeped in winter filled with morally gray con men deadly assassins twisted villains and above all a girl named Anastacya who has the power to manipulate blood and who believes she is a monsterIt took me two years to realize that the monster in the story is meI am an immigrant I am a woman of color And I am an “Other” In my time in the United States I have never experienced the sense of crushing fear about my identity that I have recently “Get out of my country communist” is only one of the slurs I’ve had screamed at me from across the street What I’ve experienced personally and seen across social media outlets and national television broadcasts has all amounted to a hyperawareness of my foreignness my Otherness and the possibility that because I am different I am not worthy of belongingBlood Heir explores the demonization of the Other and this experience of not belonging Ana’s journey examines how one can internalize hatred and fear how that can warp one’s core and turn it into something cruel and twisted But ultimately her story is one of self acceptance and of the realization that we cannot change who we are nor what we are born with but we can choose what we do with what we are given And like me Ana chooses to fight for a better tomorrowSo I gave magic to my girls who were told they were monsters I gave my children of color the ability to fight oppression Because in a world where there is so little I can control I want to put hope and power in their hands for once—and in a world where those deemed “different” are often cast out and made to be monsters I want them to winThank you for readingAmélie Wen Zhao
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Blood HeirThat threatens the very balance of her world And there is only one person corrupt enough to help Ana get to its core Ramson uicktongueA cunning crime lord of the Cyrilian underworld Ramson has sinister plans though he might have met his match in Ana Because in this story the princess might be the most dangerous player of al Update My favorite book of the year has a new release date 🙌🏻🙌🏻You have no idea how disappointed I am to hear that this book will not be getting published People need to stop getting offended over things This is a fiction book and it was seriously my favorite so far of 2019 so I'm completely heartbroken that the author felt the need to pull her book because of bullyingA dark retelling version of Anastasia? I'm all in I've read one other Anastasia retelling Heart of Iron which was totally different than this one but both were awesomeAna was my baby monster—she could do some pretty amazing things with other people's blood We get another POV besides her Ramson and oh boy this young gent had a mind full of things—betrayals a dark past a dark heart with a hint of light hidden in it I loved him And the scenes with him and Ana own my lifeThe writing was so good and the story was an incredible page turner I was so scared of another book with a cliffhanger because I've started so many dang series that end on them and while it is open ended because of the second book it isn't the death cliffhanger sentence that I loathe And I'll be ready for book two when it comes Can I also just state that the freaking cover artist deserves a metal for the beautiful cover