{"id":4590,"date":"2016-10-26T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookmaven623.wordpress.com\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2016-10-26T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:00:23","slug":"review-the-affiliate-ascension-1-by-k-a-linde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackiepaxsonauthor.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/26\/review-the-affiliate-ascension-1-by-k-a-linde\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Affiliate (Ascension #1) by K.A Linde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Wednesday!\u00a0 Today I am bringing to you the first book in K.A Linde&#8217;s fantastic Ascension series.\u00a0 We get introduced to a world where magic no longer exists but when Cyrene begins to find she can do things she must find why these things are happening to her.\u00a0 For my full review, keep reading after the book blurb.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4595 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bookmaven623.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/17385231.jpg\" alt=\"17385231\" width=\"317\" height=\"475\" \/>Book Blurb:<\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"freeText3853661648292279971\">On the day of her Presenting, in front of the entire Byern Court, seventeen-year-old Cyrene Strohm&#8217;s lifelong plans come to fruition when she&#8217;s chosen for one of the most prestigious positions in her homeland\u2014an Affiliate to the Queen.<br \/>\nOr so she thinks.<br \/>\nWhen Cyrene receives a mysterious letter and an unreadable book, she finds nothing is as it seems. Thrust into a world of dangerous political intrigue and deadly magic, Cyrene&#8217;s position only grows more treacherous when she finds herself drawn to the one man she can never have&#8230;<br \/>\nKing Edric himself.<br \/>\nCyrene must decide if love is truly worth the price of freedom<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Review:<\/h2>\n<p>Cyrene gets everything she&#8217;s ever dreamed on the day of her Presenting.\u00a0 She is an Affiliate to the Queen.\u00a0 But, when she receives a strange letter and book she begins to question things.\u00a0 Navigating polical intrigues, magic, and the love of a man she can never have leaves Cyrene desperate to find her answers.\u00a0 Though her answers may come at a price.\u00a0 Can she maintain the love or will she leave it all for a chance to find out what she is?<br \/>\nThis book truly sucked me in from page one.\u00a0 I loved the world and the characters.\u00a0 Cyrene is very naive at the beginning.\u00a0 She slowly changes through out the book to a person that is questioning the world around her and herself.\u00a0 Edric was also a very interesting character.\u00a0 In that fact, the whole royal family was very complex and interesting.\u00a0 As Edric&#8217;s obsession with Cyrene grows so does his complexity.\u00a0 Over all this is a fantastic beginning to this series.\u00a0 If you are a fan of either <em>Red Queen<\/em> or <em>Throne of Glass<\/em> you will like this series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Wednesday!\u00a0 Today I am bringing to you the first book in K.A Linde&#8217;s fantastic Ascension series.\u00a0 We get introduced to a world where magic no longer exists but when Cyrene begins to find she can do things she must find why these things are happening to her.\u00a0 For my full review, keep reading after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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