Xhea has no magic. Born without the power that everyone else takes for granted, Xhea is an outcast—no way to earn a living, buy food, or change the life that fate has dealt her. Yet she has a unique talent: the ability to see ghosts and the tethers that bind them to the living world, which she uses to scratch out a bare existence in the ruins beneath the City's floating Towers.
When a rich City man comes to her with a young woman's ghost tethered to his chest, Xhea has no idea that this ghost will change everything. The ghost, Shai, is a Radiant, a rare person who generates so much power that the Towers use it to fuel their magic, heedless of the pain such use causes. Shai's home Tower is desperate to get the ghost back and force her into a body—any body—so that it can regain its position, while the Tower's rivals seek the ghost to use her magic for their own ends.
Caught between a multitude of enemies and desperate to save Shai, Xhea thinks herself powerless—until a strange magic wakes within her. Magic dark and slow, like rising smoke, like seeping oil. A magic whose very touch brings death.
With two extremely strong female protagonists, Radiant is a story of fighting for what you believe in and finding strength that you never thought you had.
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This could be a great book, but even though the world building is interesting, as well as the characters, the plot points are just boring. Every problem sums up to the same thing and is kind of resolved in the same way. There's a lot of running around, hiding and using magic without really knowing what you're doing. That's that. I don't think any of the characters come out as witty or dexterous or, whatever, just stubborn and lucky (plot armor).
The friendship between Xhea and Shai is fun, though, and is what kept me reading, but it's not enough.
The friendship between Xhea and Shai is fun, though, and is what kept me reading, but it's not enough.
Likeless so far. Lead the way
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