Royal Bastards

by Andrew Shvarts

Being a bastard blows. Tilla would know. Her father, Lord Kent of the Western Province, loved her as a child, but cast her aside as soon as he had trueborn children.

At sixteen, Tilla spends her days exploring long-forgotten tunnels beneath the castle with her stablehand half brother, Jax, and her nights drinking with the servants, passing out on Jax’s floor while her castle bedroom collects dust. Tilla secretly longs to sit by her father’s side, resplendent in a sparkling gown, enjoying feasts with the rest of the family. Instead, she sits with the other bastards, like Miles of House Hampstedt, an awkward scholar who’s been in love with Tilla since they were children.

Then, at a feast honoring the visiting princess Lyriana, the royal shocks everyone by choosing to sit at the Bastards’ Table. Before she knows it, Tilla is leading the sheltered princess on a late-night escapade. Along with Jax, Miles, and fellow bastard Zell, a Zitochi warrior from the north, they stumble upon a crime they were never meant to witness.

Rebellion is brewing in the west, and a brutal coup leaves Lyriana’s uncle, the Royal Archmagus, dead—with Lyriana next on the list. The group flees for their lives, relentlessly pursued by murderous mercenaries; their own parents have put a price on their heads to prevent the king and his powerful Royal Mages from discovering their treachery.

The bastards band together, realizing they alone have the power to prevent a civil war that will tear their kingdom apart—if they can warn the king in time. And if they can survive the journey . .  

MY RATING:-🌟🌟🌟🌟

Well was this book a treat can I get a HELL YES! Truly speaking folks I picked and put down a thousand books before this one and the last one and none of them caught my attention I mean I didn't even think Eliza And Her Monsters would put me in a book hangover but since that book was so amazing I don't think it was even a wee bit surprising to you but me being me (i.e. a complete little idiot who has a brain equal to the size of a coffee bean) didn't even think about it and as a result I was sitting on the couch crying and eating tons of chocolates just saying that it would be perfectly fine but obviously it wasn't also if Zombies attacked now while my resources are so depleted I'll eat their brains (Can you eat a zombie'

s brain? well now I wanna try) And I would be royally pissed(get it royally pissed as in royal bastards royally pissed I'm so smart I know) but getting to the point this book came along and then their were siblings hiding and making fun of royal court and I was like flailing all over the book and being like YES!YES!.

But apart from that this book had so much sass like it was sass overload and did I like it?obviously I did don't be dumb! It had betrayals(which is one of my favorite parts in the book just so you know) and badass female mages mage to be real) and badass female warriors and people who were a lot like assassins(I mean they weren't exactly assassin but we'll let it slide) and did i mention SIBLINGS! so you can see why I would go to this author and give him all my money(which is not much) beg him to give me this glorious book and you should do that too because A)I said so(duh)and B)I'm writing more than 1500 words to convince you so ya better listen to me.

First up have you read the summary? Isn't it everything you wanted? Teenagers on a run parents trying to kill their own children I mean its basically as good as cheeseburger(but then nothing is as good as a cheeseburger so lets forget it altogether) secondly the characters are such little cute cupcakes that you couldn't help but love them I mean I could almost emphasis on "almost"think about sharing my burgers with them and that's saying alot I mean in general if you brought me a book with multiple characters whose name I'm pretty sure I won't remember I would just bang my head on the wall and then blame you for my suicide attempt(yeah I know I'm an evil creature but you are asking me to put myself through torture )also speaking of characters lets talk about them:-

1)Tilla:-Isn't she a little cupcake she is one of the siblings so naturally I love her also she is just so sassy and whenever she does something badass she takes a moment for congratulating herself  which made me so happy because that generally never happens in books and also she goes to those royal parties just for free food and that is so relatable since that is generally my motive of living(apart reading and conquering the world obviously)

2)Jax:-So he's Tilla's half brother and needless to say he was the sassiest and funniest of all of them and he's just so sweet and protective and I just loved him so much and I hate you Andrew I freakin' hate you.

3)Miles:-so he's the book nerd of all of them,and basically he's just like me apart from the crush part because lets be real there are only three and three things I've crush on Riptide,Diana's house and cheeseburger obviously(not taking into account any fictional crushes) so the point is He spews nonsense and is generally overly underestimated so yeah he 's a sweet pea.apart from in the ending when I wanted to kill him but that happens with me.

4)Zell:-Ahh!he's the best sweet pea of them all everyone is all like lets be besties!(okay not maybe all of them) but still and he's been through so much but then he finds real friends in this group which is so sweet also he has this cool metal embeddedin his hand with which he could kill like anybody and I'm so in for it.

5)Lyriana:-So she's the badass of all mages she's also the princess but that's not the point(okay maybe That is the point since her being princess got all five of them in this big huge mess but we'll let it slide) also she's sworn to this group "sisters of Kai" and basically defies her king so naturally I love her.

So all in all what I did like stabbiness,parents trying to kill their children, magical princess,psycho brother trying to kill his kind brother,assassins(sort of),sasss,betrayals,rebellions,spider thingys who are basically hideous,badass warriors but there's a teeny tiny part which i did not like that is this book was like too cliche at some points like I basically saw a lot of it coming even before it happened but that's because I've read over 150 fantasy books basically have no life so might not be a problem for you.

so what I'm trying to say my dear friend is that you should read this asap or I'm going to throw one of those spider thingy's at you and then you'd have to read it for survival(I'm a genius) so it's your call do you want to nearly die or read this book like a happy little snowflake. 

 BOOK QUOTES:-

"Damn." Jax shook his head. "Not that I had much love for those guys, but it's a hell of a way to go. Makes you almost feel bad for them.""I don't," Zell said."Yeah, well, you basically don't have emotions between 'gotta kill' and 'yay, I killed,' so that's not really a surprise."

He glanced at me, and I realised his words were a test, a little prick to see how sharply I'd react. I put on my most stoic face, which probably looked like I had to sneeze. 

Lyriana stirred in her tree, grumbling in a distinctly non-Princess-like manner. "I'd like another hour of sleep, please...""And I'd like to not get killed by Zell's psycho brother when he catches up to us." Jax clapped his hands loudly, startling Lyriana awake. "We ride. Now!" 

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