Hope and Lies (The Abredea Series Book 1) by C.H. Lyn – Review by Tracy Greenhalgh

<a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122848309-hope-and-lies” style=”float: left; padding-right: 20px”><img border=”0″ alt=”Hope and Lies” src=”https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1678122038l/122848309._SX98_.jpg” /></a><a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122848309-hope-and-lies”>Hope and Lies</a> by <a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19774502.C_H_Lyn”>C.H. Lyn</a><br/>
My rating: <a href=”https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5586297876″>5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
What can I say except if you like your books dystopian in nature but with added paranormal tendencies, and you like to disappear into a story then this is certainly the book for you. <br /><br />This is the first book I have delved into by this author, and I can tell you it will not be the last, I am defiantly going to hunt down book 2 as I need to know what happens. <br /><br />In this book we follow a few distinct groups of people, some are in the past, which I found a little tricky to follow to begin with, some with special powers, some with and some without gemstones. <br /><br />Country is brought back together after a plague, and managed in a strict caste system, each has its own place in society, and from here we follow Maybelle and Kate, Juliana who meets Anthony, and Cho, Ichi, and the children. Each group has a profound impact on the story, and each interacts with the other. Towards the end it becomes clear as to how they interlink. <br /><br />I found this book all encompassing, certainly one hard to put down. The world building paints a very vivid picture, and the character development is smooth and interesting.
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