

There was a great give and take and acknowledging ones’ place in the world. And I liked they way they were always there for each other and also could say, I can do this myself, too. Temra and Ziva have one of the tightest connections I have read about. There’s also a beautiful sister relationship here.

And some well placed pet name use had me swoooooning. Oh my gosh they were just the best y’all. It was authentic and I liked how both parties learned to COMMUNICATE and lean on one another as a bond of trust deeply formed. I liked that they got a lot more time together and that there were legitimate relationship struggles they worked through. Ziva showed great character growth and the ability to listen and learn how to communicate with those she loved. The social anxiety rep here feels so spot on and I could relate 1,000 different ways to how she was feeling talking to others, making friends, and being assertive when the time came. I was a bit neutral after the first book in this duo, but this ending, AMAZING. She is an auto-buy author for me and once again, has hit it out of the park. Tricia Levenseller books are some of my absolute favorite YA reads. Thank you to Macmillan Audio for an advanced copy audiobook.

The forge has always been Ziva’s safe space, a place to avoid society and the anxiety it causes her, but now it is her prison, and she’s not sure just how much of herself she’ll have to sacrifice to save Kellyn and take center stage in the very war she’s been trying to stop. When the events that follow lead to Ziva and Kellyn’s capture by an ambitious prince, Ziva is forced into the very situation she’s been dreading: magicking dangerous weapons meant for world domination. Ziva is forced into a breakneck race to a nearby city with the handsome mercenary, Kellyn, and the young scholar, Petrik, to find a powerful magical healer who can save her sister’s life. In Master of Iron, the conclusion to Tricia Levenseller’s exciting Bladesmith YA fantasy duology, a magically gifted blacksmith with social anxiety must race against the clock to save her beloved sister and stop a devastating war.Įighteen-year-old Ziva may have defeated a deadly warlord, but the price was almost too much.
