My review:🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Monstrous Heart by Claire McKenna (The Monstrous Heart Trilogy 1) is a fantasy, set in a world where some people’s blood holds special powers. Arden Beacon’s blood can be set fire to, and so she is a Lightmistress, a lighthouse keeper.
Arden has just moved to a new lighthouse, in an area that is altogether more of a backwater than the city she is used to, but the people still try to manipulate each other. She’s told horrible stories about her closest neighbour, Jonah Riven, that he can summon kraken, that he murdered his family when young, that he murdered his wife recently.
This is a fantastic story, with a setting and background that I’ve not encountered before. It’s a gripping story, that I just wanted to keep reading.
The second book came out this year, and so I will be reading that at some point!
Monstrous Heart was published on 31st March 2020, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.
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I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to HarperCollins UK.