Hello friends, happy Monday! Today I’m going to be posting my review of the first book in the Wintersong duology, Wintersong by: S. Jae-Jones.

Wintersong by: S. Jae-Jones: Growing up, Liesl has heard both good and bad tales of the Goblin King, all of it inspiring her musical compositions. But as time has passed, she feels her musical dreams are slipping away. When her sister is taken by the Goblin King, Liesl must go to the Underground to save her, but once she’s there she finds herself fascinated by the place and having to make impossible decisions and sacrifices. This was such a lavishing tale; the reader got swept up in the lyrical writing and enjoyed being in this world. For the most part, the world building was good and intriguing; there were moments where plots blurred and the reader wasn’t sure what was happening because they didn’t understand the world. As this is the first book in a duology, the reader hopes to have the world more flushed out in the next book to make better sense of it. The plots didn’t weave into one another as well as they could have and this left the reader feeling a little lost too. That aside, the stories were thrilling and beautifully written. The way that the author writes about love was amazing; it felt like it came straight from the heart, and experience; it felt so profound and deep and just really wowed the reader. These characters were very complex; one minute the reader was loving them, the next hating them, back and forth. There’s so much deception that there are layers the characters have to break down to get to the truth and the author gave them so much depth that it was worth pulling back the layers to learn more about them. The reader is interested to see where these characters go from here, if they come back. The way this ended didn’t really feel like there was more to come; it felt really final. The only thing that was left open ended was where Liesl’s character will go after everything she’s been through. This was a fun introduction to what seems like a captivating and passionate duology.