The last feather by shameeZ Patel Papathanasiou
Product Description
South African born, debut author brings a threat-and-danger, hidden-world fantasy with touches of Suzanne Collins which fans of VE Schwab or Sarah J Maas will love.
Twenty-two-year-old Cassia’s sister is dying, and she doesn’t know why. Cassia wakes up in another realm to find her missing best friend, Lucas, who knows how to save her sister.
Lucas is part of a community of Reborns, people who were born on earth and after death, were reborn in this realm with magical abilities. The original beings of the realm, the Firsts, rule over them.
To keep the Reborn numbers manageable, the king of the Firsts releases a curse to cull them. Cassia needs to break the curse before her time runs out and she is trapped there forever.
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Review
“I can’t believe it’s author’s debut book. Because here I am lying in bed after finishing this book still under the spell of it. It was definitely a solid 5 ?? read for me. Thank you Shameez Patel.” — Nida Shabbir, blogger
“Papathanasiou debuts and launches the Selene Trilogy with a fierce, appealing story of determination, magical spells, and the bonds of friendship. [Her] talent for writing resolute characters makes her diverse cast sing, and she infuses Cassia’s adventure with emotion. This enchanting portal fantasy will have readers hooked.” — Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Shameez Patel Papathanasiou was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. She lives there with her husband, child and two cats named Turbo and Charger. During the day she juggles her time between singing Baby Shark to her daughter and working as a civil engineer where she designs roads and analyses traffic, but at night she writes fantasy worlds with magic, monsters and someone to fall in love with.
She considers herself a professional binge-watcher and fangirl. Don’t be surprised to bump into her dressed as a Hobbit or Lady Loki. Should you need anything from her, offer a choc-chip cookie and her heart is yours forever.
Shameez fell in love with fiction, especially fantasy fiction at a young age. Her parents fondly recall receiving her first handwritten story before the age of ten, titled The Treasures of Zombie Island, which surprisingly featured no zombies at all. She has been writing ever since.
Her fantasy novel, The Last Feather is set to be published in 2022 by Flame Tree Press – it, at the very least, features a feather.
My Thoughts
Cassia is a character that everything she does seems to have a reason. The friend that went missing drives her so much and so hard as well as her little sisters health issues.
I enjoy Cassia a lot as she seems like a great person to have as a friend as she is loyal and she goes far to help others.
The story has a small resemblance to another story I read years ago which had planar style travel and it really is fairly unique for one to be able to get from our world into another. I love the concept but this book didn’t really dwell on it but instead more on Cassia and what she was going through.
Lochlan just annoys me so much with his attitude. I find I want to punch him or hold him while Cassia kicks his butt.
Lucas I can feel something different with him and that he really is there for Cassia but he just seems to annoy me at first especially as it feels like he abandoned her when she needed his friendship the most.
The story itself was very good and the fantasy elements weren’t as important for the story as what I had thought. I did enjoy that magic is different then in many books and that really made this story stand out more.
I enjoyed this book so much and I think it will be one of my top fantasy reads not only this year but the last couple. It really stands out and I really want more to the Cassie and Lucas story.
I want to thank Flame Tree Press for a review copy of this book and Anne Cater for allowing me to take part in the blogtour. This book really stands out for me and just can’t wait for more.
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