Welcome at my stop on the ‘Avery’ blog tour. ‘Avery’ by
Charlotte McConaghy is a fantasy novel and is the first book in
The Chronicles of Kaya series. Please be sure to check out the tour page and schedule for more tour stops. 

The people of Kaya die in pairs. When one lover dies, the
other does too. So it has been for thousands of years – until Ava.

For although her bondmate, Avery, has been murdered and
Ava’s soul has been torn in two, she is the only one who has ever been strong
enough to cling to life. Vowing revenge upon the barbarian queen of Pirenti,
Ava’s plan is interrupted when she is instead captured by the deadly prince of
her enemies.

Prince Ambrose has been brought up to kill and hate. But
when he takes charge of a strangely captivating Kayan prisoner and is forced to
survive with her on a dangerous island, he must reconsider all he holds true .
. .

In a violent country like Pirenti, where emotion is scorned
as a weakness, can he find the strength to fight for the person he loves . . .
even when she’s his vengeful enemy?

Avery is a sweeping, romantic fantasy novel about loss and identity, and
finding the courage to love against all odds.

For more information about this book please visite Goodreads and Amazon.

When I
first read the description of ‘Avery’ by Charlotte McConaghy I was immediately
so excited to read this book. This book sounded amazing and I also really loved
the cover. So when I was included in the book tour I was super excited and I
couldn’t wait to start reading it.

In
‘Avery’ we meet Ava. A twenty year old girl from Kaya. In Kaya people are
blessed/cursed to die in pairs. It’s a given that when you die, your bondmate
also dies. That is until Ava. When Ava’s bondmate Avery dies it’s a great shock
to everyone that Ava is still alive. But alive isn’t really the right word.
Ever since Avery died, Ava is a shadow from the person she ones was. Now she is
after revenge and is on a mission to kill the barbarian Queen of Pirenti who
killed Avery right before her eyes.

Prince
Ambrose is the second in line to the throne. He is the youngest son of the
barbarian Queen and all his life he has been trained and forced to be a killing
machine. But unlike his brother Thorne, Ambrose feels like there’s something
wrong in his life. When Ambrose is send on a mission to take a Kaya prisoner to
prison his life changes forever.

First
things first, I seriously loved this book!! From the very first page I was
completely pulled into the story of the Kayan and Pirenti people. I loved the
way Charlotte McConaghy wrote this story and the way I was immediately hooked.
Although you read about a violent country, this book is full of passion, love,
hope and romance. I loved how original this book was. The story about bondmates
who die at the same time. I never read anything like this and it was just
amazing.

The
character I liked the most was Ambrose. The way he stood up to his heritage and
wanted to be someone else despite the way he was raced. I also loved that he
still was such a kind and compassionate person although everything in his life
was about violence and murder. I couldn’t read

enough
about Ambrose.

This
book is definitely one of my new favorites. ‘Avery’ made me want to go home
faster and I just didn’t want to do anything else but read. When I was having a
bad day I just kept in mind that when I got home I could continue reading about
Ava.

I would
definitely recommend this book to every fantasy, romance reader out there. This
book will definitely won’t disappoint you. 🙂

Charlotte started writing her children’s fantasy series
‘The Strangers of Paragor’ as a teenager and has since gone on to publish five
novels. After a Masters degree in Screenwriting she wrote ‘Avery’, the first in
her adult fantasy series ‘The Chronicles of Kaya’, published by Random House.
She now lives in Sydney, Australia, and has just released a new dystopian
sci-fi novel called ‘Fury – Book One of The Cure’, published by Momentum.