BOOK REVIEW: Arrowheart, by Rebecca Sky ~ Fun and refreshing, yet with a few annoying YA tropes and characters. *SPOILER FREE*
~ARROWHEART, BY REBECCA SKY
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Hello awesome nerds and happy April everyone!
I cannot believe how quickly this year is passing by and how few books I have read so far, compared to the previous years. But no matter, today we’re here with a new book review; the review of Arrowheart, by Rebecca Sky, aka the first book in The Love Curse series.
This review will be spoiler free, mostly because I don’t really know how I felt about this book and I simply want to focus on the technicalities of this novel, and just let you choose whether you want to read it or not.
With that being said, let’s get straight to the summary of Arrowheart.
“Kiss the boys and make them cry…
The gods are gone.
The people have forgotten them.
But sixteen-year-old Rachel Patel can’t forget—the gods control her life, or more specifically, her love life.
Being a Hedoness, one of a strong group of women descended from Greek God Eros, makes true love impossible for Rachel. She wields the power of that magical golden arrow, and with it, the promise to take the will of any boy she kisses. But the last thing Rachel wants is to force someone to love her…
When seventeen-year-old Benjamin Blake’s disappearance links back to the Hedonesses, Rachel’s world collides with his, and her biggest fear becomes a terrifying reality. She’s falling for him—a messy, magnetic, arrow-over-feet type of fall.
Rachel distances herself, struggling to resist the growing attraction, but when he gives up his dream to help her evade arrest, distance becomes an insurmountable task. With the police hot on their trail, Rachel soon realizes there are darker forces hunting them—a group of mortals recruited by the gods who will stop at nothing to preserve the power of the Hedonesses—not to mention Eros himself, who is desperate to reverse the curse…
Rachel must learn to do what no Hedoness has done before—to resist her gift—or she’ll turn the person she’s grown to love into a shadow of himself… forever.”
So, Arrowheart was a fun, refreshing and quite original book, yet with a few YA tropes I don’t really like (e.g.: a girl that has a gift she doesn’t really want and she’s trying to get rid of it, simply because she met this guy with whom she can’t be because of this gift). Ugh… Please tell me something I don’t know. 
