Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald

352 pages, Paperback

Series: The Redwinter Chronicles (#1)

Published: September 12, 2023 by Tor Books

Fantasy/own

My bookclub theme was Finish that book. So this poor book was it. I started it last summer and never got far.

So what was the problem? I think it was Raine, the main character. I did not like her. If she had died at the end I would have been all meh, shit happens.

The world was interesting, but yeah Raine was pretty meh. Everyone around her is killed, she is pretty meh about it. She rides out with the people who was there doing that. She makes some friends, bad things happen.

I just never warmed up and it sort of ruined things for me :/

Those who see the dead soon join them.

Raine can see―and speak―to the dead, a gift that comes with a death sentence. All her life she has hidden, lied, and run to save her skin, and she’s made some spectacularly bad choices along the way.

But it is a rare act of kindness―rescuing an injured woman in the snow―that becomes the most dangerous decision Raine has ever made.

Because the woman is fleeing from Redwinter, the fortress-monastery of the Draoihn, warrior magicians who answer to no king, and who will stop at nothing to reclaim what she’s stolen. A battle, a betrayal, and a horrific revelation force Raine to enter the citadel and live among the Draoihn. She soon finds that her secret ability could be the key to saving an entire nation.

Though she might have to die to make it happen . . .