"Find something that sets your soul on fire, and follow it."

GENRE: Fantasy
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
FORMAT: eBook Arc
Would I recommend to others?: YES!

Short Review:
Okay, so this book is a beautiful story, dedicated to those who could never find their place in this world, to those who everyone denied any claim in their own community, to those of us who were hurt by the trauma of our past. Somehow, following our three main characters, you begin to heal with them and learn how to trust again and to be kind to yourself. I think this book addresses so many topics in a lovely way and yet it is filled with action and plot twists that are delivered in a subtle way. This book feels like healing your soul while taking an adventure at the same time.

Long Review:
Where do I start? First, thank you to Emma for an eArc copy in exchange for my honest review and thank you for letting me be part of your street team!

The Nameless Heir is a beautiful book that is dedicated to those who could never find their place in the world and are a Clan of misfits. Just the dedication is enough to give you a preview of what the book is about:

"For the nameless, the misfits, and the broken, I claim you."

So the story follows three main characters: Fallon, Elowen and Ronen. Each of them is a misfit in a different way and the plot brings them together in a fascinating and interesting way. Ronen is introduced as a misfit due to the fact that he is half Nokken (which others fear as they are known to enchant others).

"Ronen felt absolutely no attraction to water, no desire to control it. Just the lust for taking a nice bath. His only Nokken feature was his blue left eye, in contract to his brown right eye. A sign of his half heritage."

"He would never stop searching for acceptance, even if it meant walking to the ends of every realm to do so."

Elowen is a lovely and gentle creature who got trapped at the human realm and seen as a misfit due to who she is (&her having a tail).

"In this world, Elowen was a swan among geese. Too beautiful, too pure, too good for this realm."

Fallon is a bastard from one of the realms in the mortal world and is betrayed by her own father.

"Betrayal. It had once been a disgusting, foreign concept to her. Now it was her truth. Her entire reason for breathing was to betray the ones she once called her people. Fallon was no better than the men before her, she was no better than anyone. Barwyn's bastard."

Fallon is such a strong FMC & we see her growth throughout the book. She learns to let go of her anger and become who she is truly meant to be.

"You are afraid of choosing to be, when all you know is the feeling of an empty heart."

All three of them together

"A clan of mistfits. Three half-blooded, beautiful misfits against the world"

Emma approaches many themes throughout the book but the main one is how the world can make you feel so isolated for being different, for daring to be BORN unique (which was never a choice). Through Fallon, Elown & Ronen, we see how the world changes and treats you as a stranger or a threat just because you look different or you are from a heritage that did not belong with your community.

We also see the effect of war & local struggles on the community and people:

"War was a sickness. And who it did not claim, it lived and festered within."

But, Emma shows the positive outcome that can come from it, in changing the world to make it a better place throughout the book.

And finally, we get to see the growth, development & effect of breaking the trauma cycle:

"A circle has no beginning and no end. The only way to escape a cycle is to break it."

"Emotions were the cruelest gift the gods ever gave. Men begged for the ability to create and destroy worlds, so they gave him the ability to create and destroy himself instead."

"Because happy people dont hurt people."

"A light that had lived within the deepest, most haunted parts of her soul, and still knew how to shine. Because a star must collapse before it is born."