Book Review: Beyond the Ruby Veil by Mara Fitzgerald

Beyond the Ruby Veil by Mara Fitzgerald
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This...this was the most UNHINGED slow-burn book I've ever read. Ever. I did look up the CWs for this book, and, um...that didn't prepare me for this unhingeable book about a girl who keeps causing problems, always, and the girl who can summon water, but it turns out she was actually stealing water from other kingdoms. What's the idea the girl gets (her name's Emanuela) to stop her? Oh, she's going to try to steal the water back.

But before she can do that, she has to deal with a little problem on her wedding day: a woman called the watercrea comes and takes her up the tower in the Ruby Veil, where she starts to drain her blood. Well, Emanuela didn't like that, not one bit. She escapes the Watercrea's castle and then she goes to her supposed fiancee's house, where it turns out that he married another girl two days after she was taken up to the tower, just when she was taken because of her omens that she had hidden on her side and had never blossomed ever since she discovered it when she was seven. Emanuela was shocked that her best friend, Ale, got married again-and that's when the watercrea shows up again, trying to get her back into the tower.

Emanuela said "Bet" and...well, she pushed her and killed her.

Then she and Ale went underground in the tunnels into a new city, where they sneaked in and met a girl called The Heart and her brother, and that's when things started to get so unhinged that I couldn't even believe it. From one thing to the next, the action just jumps off the page and you don't know how this story is going to end until the end, when Emanuela and the Heart, Verene, was in an iron cell and Verene swears that she won't work with Emanuela escape or even work with her because she hates her so much. Emanuela, once again, said "Bet" and at the end, a girl escaped the iron cell. Who was it?? Was it Emanuela? Was it Verene? Whoever it was, I can't wait to find out who it was that escaped when I finally get to book two.

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