#conquerorssaga

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Title: And I Darken Author: Keirsten White Series: The Conqueror's Saga   Book 1 Pages: 475 Genre:  YA Historical Fiction Rating Out Of 5 Stars:   5 Buy it: Amazon / Book Depository / BookOutlet          Goodreads page My Other Reviews:   Tumblr   /    Goodreads

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                      "I am going to start sleeping with a knife."                   "If you had had a knife, you would have killed me!"               "Yes, exactly. And then I could have gone back to sleep."     Radu snorted. "Nothing like cuddling a corpse to give you sweet dreams.”

         Monster to some. Hero to others. Many of us know the story of Vlad Dracul. But when Vlad become Lada, you're taken on a whole new journey to the rise of one of the most notorious people in history.          And I Darken by Kiersten White’s portrayel of a young woman growing up in the Ottoman Empire shows you can accomplish much through sheer brutal will. Her refusal to conform to ideals of what women should be she proves time and again that even though she's  a girl she can, and will, kick your ass.

*****My Thoughts*****

         I will do my best to keep this short if only for the fact that I could go on and on about this book. I'm a huge history junkie. When I heard about a genderbent retelling of Vlad Dracul it immediately went into my TBR pile. I have to say I was not disappointed. White's fleshing out of characters, locations and moments are remarkably in depth.

       It’s hard to make someone who (depending on your viewpoint) is oft seen as a horrible person, become someone relateable. When you see the events and passions that drive a person to do something horrible you have to wonder: were the things they did were really all that bad or can they be justified?