4/5
I read Rebecca Ross's The Queen's Rising and enjoyed it immensely due to the beautiful way Ross captured the admiring relationship between the two love interests. I'd hoped Sisters of Sword and Song would contain the same beauty, and it surpassed my expectations. When Evadne's sister Halcyon is given a fifteen-year sentence for manslaughter, Evadne volunteers to serve part of Halcyon's sentence. Sisters follow the two women as they serve out their punishment and unravel the mystery behind Halcyon's crime.
There are many novels about jealous siblings, and I worried Sisters would repeat that trope and heavily favor one sister over the other. Instead, both Evadne and Halcyon were well-developed, complex characters, and I adored both. Rebecca Ross doesn't forget to create distinct side characters either. But the true stars of the show are Ross's complex relationships. Most YA relationships are simple hero-villain and hero-friend relationships, but in Sisters Ross builds multi-faceted relationships full of complicated history that create a more complex read. This is especially visible between Halcyon and Stratton, and Evadne and Damon.
Ross ties together a cast of well-written characters in a setting full of spies, quests, magic, and intrigue. I'd recommend this fast-paced novel to fans of Shadow and Bone and The Queen's Rising.
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