I am so excited to join Inkyard Press in their tour for THE KINDRED! If you haven't had this on your radar yet, WHY??? Check out my review and the excerpt and see if it changes your mind!
Alechia Dow is a former pastry chef, teacher, and librarian. When she's not writing, you can find her having epic dance parties with her little girl, baking, reading, or traveling.
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THE KINDRED by Alechia Dow
On sale: January 4, 2022
Publisher: Inkyard Press
Genre: Teen & Young Adult; Sci-Fi; Dystopian Romance
Page Count: 400 Pages
“Utterly swoony…an endearing reminder that true love can change the world” —J. Elle, New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Ebony To save a galactic kingdom from revolution, Kindred mind-pairings were created to ensure each and every person would be seen and heard, no matter how rich or poor… Joy Abara knows her place. A commoner from the lowly planet Hali, she lives a simple life—apart from the notoriety that being Kindred to the nobility’s most infamous playboy brings. Duke Felix Hamdi has a plan. He will exasperate his noble family to the point that they agree to let him choose his own future and finally meet his Kindred face-to-face. Then the royal family is assassinated, putting Felix next in line for the throne…and accused of the murders. Someone will stop at nothing until he’s dead, which means they’ll target Joy, too. Meeting in person for the first time as they steal a spacecraft and flee amid chaos might not be ideal…and neither is crash-landing on the strange backward planet called Earth. But hiding might just be the perfect way to discover the true strength of the Kindred bond and expose a scandal—and a love—that may decide the future of a galaxy.
Reasons to read: sweet romance, a diverse cast, and a delightful plot of planet-hopping and swooning over Taylor Swift and cottagecore.
Goodreads Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Personal rating: I'd die for this book.
It is December 15th and I am TIRED. I've read 222 books (to date. Note: I don't count any book under 100 pages) This year I've written more reviews than I ever have in my whole life and I thought I had my top book of the year decided, but I saw this book mentioned in a Facebook book group more than once, and me being all fomo-like, I scooted my butt over to Edelweiss and downloaded it.
Side note: if you're a reviewer on Edelweiss and faint every time you see your anticipated reads on the TO DOWNLOAD, can I join your gang? I'll bring coffee and uncomfortable silences.
MY LIKES ARE AS FOLLOWED:
The first thing that stuck to me about THE KINDRED was the fact that the story was not bogged down with scientific stuff that often takes me out of stories in this genre. The ships fly. Tech is tech and that's all we need to know about that.
The sensitivity when it comes to sexuality, race, caste is done perfectly. There is a wide array of representation in this book including plus-sized characters as well sexual orientations.
The idea of forming bonds at birth in order to stop upheaval within the lower classes is amazing. The higher class is paired with the lower class in hopes that the people will be at peace if they think the poor have a voice. Despite seeing the downsides of this, the author gives us all the pluses of knowing someone your entire life and loving them not because of their appearances but because of their feelings and thoughts is pure feels. I imagine the connection of knowing someone so closely like that is so deep and hopeful and lovely.
Felix and Jo are ride or die. Endgame. First string. A team. I've never known a YA couple so incredibly tethered to each other (figuratively, might I mention since they are tethered in the literal sense)
"I want to kiss you." Nerves threaded through his words. "Can I kiss you?"
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I don't what else there is to say. I'm kind of happy I'm ending a very successful year of reading with a book like this, but my former Best Book of Celia's 2021 should be salty because it may have been bumped.
I need a printed copy of this book to sleep with at night
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