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Title: Forsworn

 Author: Emily Wibberley

 Series: The Last Oracle # 2

 Genre: YA Fantasy

 Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

 Release Date: June 27, 2015

 Edition: eARC

 Pages: 410

 Rating: 5 Stars

 Why I Read It: I loved Sacrificed and I was lucky to be able to participate in the blog tour!

 Synopsis: Clio can see the future, but what she doesn’t know about her past could destroy her. 

It’s been a year since Clio made her sacrifice to the Deities and embraced her destiny as the Oracle to save her people.

The only family she has left is a brother who wants her dead.

The prince, her oldest friend, is a king with his own agenda.

And the man who once loved her, now hates her.

All she can do is try to forget about Riece, the enemy commander whose heart she broke to save his life, as she serves the Deities. Her days are filled with Visions and bloodshed in a never-ending war against the Untouched. To add to her problems, she must pose as King Derik’s mistress to conceal her forbidden powers from the Emperor’s spies.

When Riece unexpectedly returns to Sheehan with a new and beautiful ally, Clio knows she must put him out of her mind once and for all, but first, they are thrust together into battle against a mysterious Untouched warrior with otherworldly power. To reclaim her city, she must team up with the man she hurt, the man she still loves but can never be with, and finally confront the questions about her origin—questions with answers that Clio may not be prepared to face.
 Review: I definitely didn’t see any of what happened in this book coming at all! I have read many sequels in a fantasy series that weren’t as good as the first book, but this completely blew Sacrificed out of the park! I loved every battle, every decision made, and the romance. Ah Riece! I have been waiting for this book for a while and I wasn’t expecting anything from it. It was truly a great sequel. Emily Wibberley surely does know how to write a fantasy novel that makes the reader completely fall in love with it.

Clio is one of my favorite characters in this series. We finally get to see her in the position of the Oracle and how that position helps her to help her city. She does struggle a bit with the expectations that serving the Deities implies, but she does the best that she can. I love the fact that even when her Visions were being manipulated, she still had her sights set on saving Sheehan. I did want to yell at her to just accept the fact that she truly still love Riece, but I understand why she so adamantly refused. Clio does find out more on what exactly being the Oracle entails, but I hope that her decision in the end doesn’t end up costing her life.

I love Riece, I really do. I can understand why he was mad at Clio for an entire year. But what I did not like was when he just shows up in Sheehan with a princess he’s engaged to. A PRINCESS!!!! I digress. I still admire Riece for being a good commander and being loyal to his friend the Emperor. He hides his pain well, but you can tell that he really was hurt by Clio’s rejection. He had loved her and she rejected him to keep him safe. I laughed whenever there was a part in the book when he would be talking to Derik because you can tell that even though he was hiding his pain, Riece loved Clio and Derik knew it. Riece is an amazing character and I can’t wait to see how his storyline progresses.

Overall, this book was the greatest sequel I have ever read in a fantasy series and that is saying a lot. I cannot wait for the third book! This series has everything I love in a fantasy series. I cannot wait to find out how everything goes and what will happen to all my favorite characters. Emily Wibberley is an amazing writer whose work I will continue to read.


img_4752.jpg Emily grew up in the South Bay where she spent her formative years battling zombies on her Xbox, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and voraciously reading everything from The Hunger Games to Jane Austen, where her love for feisty young heroines was born.
After graduating from Princeton University Magna Cum Laude in 2014, she began writing. Her debut novel, Sacrificed, was named a finalist in the Young Adult category of the 2015 International Book Awards, the Young Adult category of the 2015 Beverly Hills Book Awards, and in the Young Author category of the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Since its release, Sacrificed has spent more than four months as a Kindle Top Ten Teen and Young Adult Bestseller.
When she isn’t reading the latest YA book, Emily enjoys watching kick-butt action movies with her two rescue German Shepherds, Hudson and Bishop, named after characters from James Cameron’s Aliens.
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Comments

  1. AnonymousJuly 27, 2015 at 1:13 PM

    Looks fantastic but I'm easily swayed when it comes to a woman who is powerful in many ways, strength, smarts, abilities, yeah I'm a pushover :-)

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    1. NatalieJuly 27, 2015 at 1:55 PM

      Yeah Clio is all that and more. Practically the reasons why I read this series. I also have a weakness for strong female characters.

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