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A review by bookandcoffeeaddict
The Bleeding Heart by Lizzy Gayle, Lizzy Gayle
5.0
The Bleeding Heart is the story of Djinn Taj and his search for his missing sister, Leela – a search which leads him to a Djinn serial killer, magicians who will stop at nothing to enslave all Djinn kind, and a lesson in the power of love.
Taj isn’t as jaded as his sarcasm and attitude want you to believe – he has soft spots for his Djinn sister, her magician boyfriend, her boyfriend’s powerful magician little sister, cute boys with tender hearts, his fellow Djinn, and even some of his captors.
As laissez-faire as Taj tries to act, he’s a bleeding heart through and through.
The storytelling and flow of this book is fantastic, like “I stayed up until 5:30 in the morning finishing it because I couldn’t stop turning pages” fantastic. The worldbuilding is well-paced and organic and the action picks up and never lets you down. There’s action, there’s twists, there’s romance, and there’s love – real, true, love – both familial and romantic.
And Love is the real hero in this story.
The Bleeding Heart is the second book in The Djinn series, but reads perfectly fine on its own. The first book in the series (The Binding Stone, currently on sale for $0.99, fyi) is actually Leela’s story and introduces some of the characters seen in this book, as well as a little bit of missing backstory, but nothing that can’t be inferred with context clues. But even though you don’t need to read the first book to understand this one, I absolutely plan to. I also plan to look for the next book in the series. I’m hooked.
*I received a copy of this book to review. You can find this review and others like it at BookAndCoffeeAddict.com, along with recommendations for a fantastic cup of coffee.
Taj isn’t as jaded as his sarcasm and attitude want you to believe – he has soft spots for his Djinn sister, her magician boyfriend, her boyfriend’s powerful magician little sister, cute boys with tender hearts, his fellow Djinn, and even some of his captors.
As laissez-faire as Taj tries to act, he’s a bleeding heart through and through.
The storytelling and flow of this book is fantastic, like “I stayed up until 5:30 in the morning finishing it because I couldn’t stop turning pages” fantastic. The worldbuilding is well-paced and organic and the action picks up and never lets you down. There’s action, there’s twists, there’s romance, and there’s love – real, true, love – both familial and romantic.
And Love is the real hero in this story.
The Bleeding Heart is the second book in The Djinn series, but reads perfectly fine on its own. The first book in the series (The Binding Stone, currently on sale for $0.99, fyi) is actually Leela’s story and introduces some of the characters seen in this book, as well as a little bit of missing backstory, but nothing that can’t be inferred with context clues. But even though you don’t need to read the first book to understand this one, I absolutely plan to. I also plan to look for the next book in the series. I’m hooked.
*I received a copy of this book to review. You can find this review and others like it at BookAndCoffeeAddict.com, along with recommendations for a fantastic cup of coffee.