Tournament of Hearts

I received this book in exchange for an honest review through the group For Love of a Book

I'm so torn with this book. I'm giving it 3 stars but, I want to give it more. I think in the future I'll read it again and see what happens.

For now, I thought it was a good book and really interesting but, for some reason I could not connect to the characters. I liked Neven and his friends, especially Delgado but, I just couldn't make the full connect. The world building was fantastic though. It was very deep and the next book looks primed to be even more so. Although, the book starts out by throwing the reader in the middle of things, and I felt I was scrambling to pick up the pieces and understand immediately. –Then again, sometimes I love this feature so, could just be how I'm feeling right now–

Lots of mystery and intrigue involved as well as betrayal. So much there to pull you in and wonder about the mystery and how it would be solved. There was also a few stories going on at once here and switching from one to the other could be jarring. Usually we were with Neven but then suddenly the Character the read is shadowing gets switched. I'm also more used to this at the start of a chapter and not in the middle. But, recently I've been reading first person stories so, that might also be what made the switched so weird to me.

Overall, I liked the story and characters and the magic wasn't really there(still confused on how someone died) BUT in the next book I feel things would really get better and more explained. So, will I read the next book? Probably. ^_^