Book Review #53: The Ashes of Hope and Hunger by Dawn Jonckowski

Arba never wanted to be a Wife. A wife, maybe, with a lowercase ‘w’ but never a Wife. She’s dreamed of bodice-ripping romance all her life, devouring Earthen books through back alley networks across the universe, but this marriage, all that it entails, it’s nothing like what she wanted.

But her planet is dying and the king won’t let the Global Alliance help. So, it’s up to her and the little baby in her stomach to pave the future.

Except the First Wife, Megai, has different plans. Plans to...