Sara Lawson's Reviews > With Dagger and Song

It is rare for me to be able to answer when someone asks me about my favorite book or even the best book I've read this year. But this year, I've been telling everyone about A Lair of Bones, an incredible first book in Helen Scheuerer's new series, Curse of the Cyren Queen. Hands down, best book I've read all year. Until I read book 2. And once again, Helen has outdone herself.

After winning the competition and being crowned queen, or actually no, the council found a loophole and didn't crown Roh queen after all. Instead, she was tasked with three additional quests and had to set out on a journey with four companions, friends, enemies, there might not be a difference this time since no one seems able to forgive her for her misdeeds or accept her due to her mother's crimes. And yet, the journey continues, the stakes are higher than ever, and Roh learns more about herself and her past. There are so many unexpected twists in the story, horrible and incredible, and whenever I thought nothing else can surprise me, I was hit with another change. There are cyrens, warlocks, religious fanatics and overlords, and sea drakes, and Roh is more amazing than ever! My gut feeling that she had picked exactly the right companions was proven, and she is joined by others. And throughout everything, she proves that she might be exactly the right cyren to wear the crown.

Maybe you are the one to bring us together, after all …

This was an incredible, breathtaking, fantastic adventure, and I'm only sad that I can never read it for the first time again because I will absolutely be reading it again. I cannot wait for book 3. I received an ARC from the author and have reviewed it freely.