This story is about Karina and Malik and is told from their point of views. Karina is a crown Princess who grieves after her mother’s death that was by assassination. She plans to use ancient magic, that may or may not be real to bring her mother back from the dead since she is not ready to rule. She has to solve riddles to get items for her mother’s resurrection. With the Solstasia Festival, there are competitors and she decides that this years prize will be her hand in marriage. She does that because one of the items she needs for her mother’s resurrection is a King’s heart.
Malik enters the Solstasia Festival games in false pretenses to become a competitor. His ultimate goal is to get close to Karina and kill her for his own personal reasons. As he gets closer to Karina, will he develop feelings and be even able to kill her like he plans?
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin has been one of my anticipated reads of 2020. I love the cover and thought the description sounded really intriguing. I really enjoyed both of the characters point of views. And I really enjoyed seeing the Solstasia Festivals and challenges that Malik had to go through. I did feel like Karina was a bit immature and didn’t think her plan for her mother’s resurrection was really necessary and solid. It was just there and didn’t have much reason behind it. There are plot twists in this book and they were well executed. Still a really good book and the Western Folklore that was intwined in it was really good and executed nicely.