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Children of Fallen Gods
Carissa Broadbent
War of Lost Hearts, book two
Hardcover, 624 pages
Reprinted December 9, 2025 by Bramble
ISBN 9781250405388
No war can be fought with clean hands. Not even the ones waged for the right reasons. Not even the ones you win.
Tisaanah bargained away her own freedom to save those she left behind in slavery. Now, bound by her blood pact, she must fight the Orders’ war -- and Max is determined to protect her at all costs.
But when a betrayal tears apart Ara, Max and Tisaanah are pushed into an even bloodier conflict. Tisaanah must gamble with Reshaye’s power to claim an impossible victory. And Max, forced into leadership, must confront everything he hoped to forget: his past, and his own mysterious magic.
All the while, darker forces loom -- far darker, even, than the Orders’ secrets.
As Tisaanah and Max are ensnared in a web of ancient magic and twisted secrets, one question remains: what are they willing to sacrifice for victory? For power? For love?
It began with a whisper and it will end with a scream.There is no predicting this story. I don’t know where I’m going. I’m not even sure I know where I’ve been. Time is forward and backward and up and down.
This sequel carries on the story of Max and Tisaanah as they serve as pawns in a war torn game of power. Zeryth has tied his life to Tisaanah. Tisaanah has entered into a blood pact to be his weapon against his enemies. Max is forced to take up his military service as general on a path of destruction wherever Zeryth opts to point.
And through it all, Max and Tisaanah bend and wield their powers to fulfill their contracts with as few casualties as possible.
And, alongside it all, begins a new storyline. New characters. New wars. In a place where humans wage horrific attacks upon the Fey.
Where Aefe, stripped of her birthright as heir of the House of Obsidian and very much ever seeking the pride of her father, discovers the bloody remnants of a devastating genocide.
Where Caduan, once the thirteenth in line to the Stone throne, becomes one of a mere nineteen survivors of his people after the humans, in their desperate madness to save their own kind have hunted the Fey with wild motivations to steal their magic.
He was cut from the same cloth as Max. So very similar. Educated. Well read. Merciful. A dreamer, hopeful for a better world.
Until they took her.
Until betrayal claimed one too many lives.
Until Aefe was gone.
Until Reshaye was ripped into the world.
So much loss. So many sacrifices. So much more than anything I could have anticipated. The horror most of all.
4 out of 5 stars. The repetition of shattered glass, falling, and seeing white was overwhelming at times.
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