Touch of Power Blog Tour

Today we are stoked to be participating in the Touch of Power Blog Tour! Maria V. Snyder is one of our absolute favourite authors so when we were asked to participate our answer was a resounding YES! On our stop today we have Jaime’s review of Touch of Power from Maria’s new The Healer Series. We are also hosting a giveaway for a signed copy of Touch of Power and if you head over to Maria’s website on January 16^th there will be a grand prize winner announced for a $100 spa gift certificate!  After the review make sure to enter to win a signed copy of Touch of Power! Make sure to add it to your Goodreads lists! Here's Maria's Bio


Maria V. Snyder switched careers from meteorologist to novelist when she began writing the New York Times best-selling Study Series (POISON STUDY, MAGIC STUDY and FIRE STUDY) about a young woman who becomes a poison taster.  When she’s not traveling, Maria lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, son, and daughter.

And now here’s Jaime’s review....

From Goodreads.
Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan assumes their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honored for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Territories, leaving the survivors in a state of chaos.

Stressed and tired from hiding, Avry is abducted by a band of rogues who, shockingly, value her gift above the golden bounty offered for her capture. Their leader, an enigmatic captor-protector with powers of his own, is unequivocal in his demands: Avry must heal a plague-stricken prince—leader of a campaign against her people. As they traverse the daunting Nine Mountains, beset by mercenaries and magical dangers, Avry must decide who is worth healing and what is worth dying for. Because the price of peace may well be her life....

When I found out Maria V. Snyder was writing another series I was super excited then, I found out it was another fantasy series and I squeed like a little girl and immediately texted Patricia to tell her! 

We both love Maria’s books and she is definitely one of my favorite authors! So I jumped on netgalley to request a copy and it arrived on my kindle shortly after and I started reading the minute it did!

Maria did not disappoint with this new book! I fell in love with the new world she created and the characters; she has a way of making me feel like I’m in the books with how alive she writes her characters and the lands. I’m really hoping there’s a map in the finished copy I think it would add a lot to the story like it did in her Study and Glass books but even so while reading the ARC I had no problem imagining and feeling the perilous journey through the Nine Mountains, the petals of the Peace and Death Lilies, the giant teeth of the Ufa’s, the pain Avry took in every time she healed someone, or the laughter joy and sorrow experienced throughout the book.

The cast of characters Maria assembled was awesome! Avry was an strong heroine and I admired the fight she had in her then there’s Belen whom I fell in love with almost from the moment I met him he was like the big brother I never had but had always wanted. Kerrick was the one whom it took me the longest to grow attached to one moment he was nice and the next you wanted to throw something at him. Then there’s the characters Quain, Vinn, and Flea with the sarcasm and humor that Maria has a way of writing into every book and without these three the story would have not been the same. Last but not leas t the villain of this story Tohon the man is gorgeous enigmatic and hard not to like, except for the fact that he is an evil manipulative megalomaniac whom uses his power for evil. I was attracted to him and repulsed at the same time. Trust me I know this might not make sense but when you meet him it will.

I loved how this story unfolded there’s so much more than what’s in the synopsis there’s twists and turns that will play out through the whole series like who created the plague and why, as well as the fight to free their realms from the tyranny of Tohon. I cannot wait for the next book Scent of Magic which will be a hard wait let me tell you after I finished Touch of Power all I wanted to do was read more!

I’m also posting the UK cover for Touch of Power because it’s amazeballs and I’ll definitely be buying it from The Book Depository as well as the US one J

Touch of Power is out now so go purchase it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or The Book Depository US cover here UK cover here. I’m also posting The Book Depository’s page for Maria here so you can see all of her other amazing book covers!

*************Winner Announced!!! Amy Green from The YA Sisterhood congrats Amy!!!******

We know you’re probably itching to read this now well fill out this (contest closed) for your chance to win a signed copy! The winner will be notified at the end of the tour on January 16^th and the book will be shipped from Harlequin/Mira.

Also make sure to check out the other tour stops for fun posts and more chances to win!!!!!

Friday, January 6 – Seeing Night Book Reviews

Monday, January 9 – Lindsay Cummings

Wednesday, January 11 – Books Complete Me

Friday, January 13 – Fantasy Cafe