Arcana by Jessica Leake
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
The genres under which this book is listed are as follows: historical fiction, magic, young adult and young adult romance. Then I had to ask myself what very explicit love scenes were doing getting more attention than the historical fiction or the magic, which is what the book promised to focus on in the first place. I was excited and intrigued to read a story that potentially combined all of my favourite genres into one, but I was greatly disappointed and even grossed out by the very detailed make-out scenes that began to occur early on in a story that is supposed to belong to the historical fiction romance genre, which would never include heat-inducing meetings between the main character and what obviously turned out to be her boytoy.
I have absolutely nothing good to say about this story. So many elements were thrown into this sorry excuse of a book, but at the end it all was just a set-up for the author to write Regency-style porn that included teenagers.
My search for good historical fiction combined with magic and a lovely hint of romance continues. I would not recommend this book to anyone.
