Book review - The Guidal: Discovering Puracordis by Roxy Eloise

Book - The Guidal: Discovering Puracordis

Author - Roxy Eloise

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Review:

Sixteen year old Aurora has reached the age of change and her unity test to see if she will be paired for betrothal which will ultimately result in marriage but having always been known as a trouble maker and so moving to her new life, with her increased duties and responsibilities, is going to be a real challenge for her and as she begins to discover more about herself she has to question everything whilst also ensuring she doesn't get continual punishments that will make her life unbearable but can you really do that when you are discovering so much?

Living in an institute which sets you a schedule, has living quarters based around colours and uniforms that are linked to your living quarters is something that those living there have been raised on and so accept.  They are taught everything they know, they are provided their meals and their life path is set out by reaching certain stages of life and being assigned your new duties and responsibilities but can a teenager being someone in charge of enforcing a curfew on the city outwith their institute really make for a reasonable set of people as they mature or will it form backstabbers who are power hungry?

Having gone into this book with no real idea on what to expect I found myself pleasantly surprised by what I found.  The book felt perfectly paced as the story moved along and whilst for some of the book it felt much like the characters experiencing their "normal" life, that simply added to the charm of this book and made it have a very unique feel.

This is the kind of book that you would expect to have the high pace of others out there in the sci-fi world but having read it and found it to have a very slow and steady pace throughout I found myself loving how it read and genuinely not knowing what was to come next but being fully absorbed into the story itself.  It is a book I found to be truly brilliant and this is an author with a real talent who I am excited to read much more from.


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