Defiance
YA fantasy by C. J. Redwine – 403 pages
Rachel Adams’s father didn’t return from the Wasteland where the Cursed One roams. It’s been sixty days and according to the Commander’s law he must be declared dead. Rachel though, is sure he’s alive. Why doesn’t the Commander send men after him?
Thankfully Oliver, her father’s best friend, should be nominated her new protector, and she’ll be safe until he is back. But her father played a trick on her. It must be. Or why would he assign Logan McEntire as her protector in his will?
The man that rejected her two years earlier is now responsible for her. Everything seems nightmarish to Rachel and it’s only the beginning. Rachel is decided to leave Baalboden to search for her father in the Wasteland, but for that she’ll have to elude the Commander, and hopefully convince Logan to go with her.
I appreciated how C. J. Redwine explores the voices of the two main characters, who not only are fierce heroes embarked on a quest for justice, but also are enthralled in their own personal journey of self-discovery to find love.
Defiance is an adventurous and romantic YA fantasy.