Rating 4/5 ⭐️

Spice 3/5 🌶️

Leith is a gladiator fighting to become a Bloodguard, hoping to survive, and make enough gold to save his dying sister. 

Maeve is an elven royal who is doing everything she can to save her kingdom and get her papa out of prison. She offers Leith a chance to win the Bloodguard title. Can they work together? 

Leith is book boyfriend goals. His character was really well developed. You really are able to connect to him and understand his motivations and his state of mind. 

I had wanted a little more from Maeve. I think she is a great FMC but her character growth wasn’t as extensive I felt like. 

Excellent writing though. Loved the plot! Was medium paced but had a lot of action. I didn’t feel like it dragged on. Varied nicely from these typical romantasy books that I’ve been reading with the same type of plot and characters. This was a nice little switch up.