This attribute Armentrout included within the novel shows young girls that no matter their looks or how others perceive and judge them, they are strong, independent, brave, and beautiful, and I believe in this modern day it is truly valuable to include.Īdditionally, while Poppy’s heartmate Casteel is in capture within Carsodonia, Poppy turns to her royal advisor, Kieran. While many political aspects of the story occur and take the forefront of the tale, I found the aspect of Poppy coming into herself and establishing her confidence after it was so horribly diminished over the years to be one of the most beautiful parts. Afraid to show her face for eighteen years of her life and being forced to wear a veil as the Maiden, Poppy now is the face of Atlantia, along with the face of the harbinger of death and destruction. Because in their eyes she was not “flawless”, Poppy has to overcome this perception of self. Additionally, though she is beautiful, she has deep scarring on her face, stomach, and legs from a craven attack as a child, and the vamprys she grew up around always criticized her for her less-than-perfect, as they called it, beauty.
Firstly, Poppy is described to not be a super-skinny character, thus giving medium-sized girls body image representation in fictional literature. She is only nineteen, and her life has drastically changed in a matter of months.Īside from the political aspect of this fantasy novel, numerous human-based factors can be seen. Additionally, Poppy is battling her own PTSD from not only her childhood, but from recent events as well. Categorized as the harbinger of death and destruction, her goal to take Carsadonia from Isbeth and her rule of blood-sucking vamprys may prove to be more difficult than anticipated, as Isbeth has her people wrapped around her red-painted finger. The novel uncovers an immense number of truths about who Poppy is once more, revealing to readers how she is much, much more powerful than the goddess she had previously been established as.Īdditionally, Poppy must act with a prophecy hanging over her head.
However, after the events at the end of the third book in the series led to her husband, Casteel’s, capture by her mother, Isbeth, the queen of Carsadonia and the vamprys, the woman who tortured him for decades, Poppy must assert herself as the queen she is in order to rescue her husband and protect Atlantia from Isbeth’s desired reign. However, after discovering alarming aspects of her parents (biological, that is) and the blood that courses through her veins, she accepts her birthright as the Queen of Atlantia with Casteel Da’Neer, the former prince of Atlantia, by her side as King. If you plan to read the previous three books, I recommend not reading this post, as a great deal of changes occur from book one to book four. Armentrout is the fourth book in the From Blood and Ash series.
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