Freya's Reviews > The Last Bloodcarver

Thank you NetGalley and OneWorld Publications, for providing me with this arc in exchange for my honest review.

This was a nice YA fantasy debut. Imperfect but I enjoyed reading it despite its flaws.

I have to mention the amazing cover, title and map!!

This all starts with the death of an important businessman, the founder of Cogmi Industries. Is his death an accident or an assassination?

Nhika is a girl with special powers, she can use them to heal or kill. She’s one of the only people left with these special abilities as most of the others were killed. She hides her abilities because people fear her kind.

Most of and the strength of this book is about her feeling different and lonely and guilty about not being able to save her mother and not being able to live up to her legacy. Her development throughout this story is great.

When someone she helped betrays her, she is soon caught, caged and sold as a rare good at the black market. She ends up at the Cogmi family who ask her to do something under false pretences. Unfortunately, not long after she finds out the truth and that making me expect exciting/interesting developments, the story starts dragging and repeating itself. I was so relieved when it picked up again about halfway. It was worth it to keep reading because the rest of the book had a nice flow and the ending was incredible.

There’s a nice budding romance in the second half and a fragile but important found family trope which I always love.