The Last Great Heir (Feast and Famine, #1)
Carina Finn
The female heirs of two opposing families must duel to rule the land for the next generation in this dazzling fantasy adventure debut! Merriment Feast's life is one constant party, complete with dazzling gowns and delicious pastries. Well, except for her aunt's physically grueling training. Merri believes it's her responsibility to protect her family's traditions and the power they've held for generations. Rue Famine knows that only Feasts benefit from Feast rule. As the heir of House Famine, she spends her days studying potion-making in an enormous, dusty library and learning how to use her magic to help others. Custom dictates that the heirs of Feast and Famine must duel on their thirteenth birthday. Only one family can rule the land of Fauret, and Merri and Rue have been raised as rivals. But as the contest draws near and dangers escalate, their true enemy may be a shared one…
I am absolutely OBSESSED with the descriptions in this??? The clothing and food are so vivid in the writing, I absolutely love this!!! Not as sold on the plot though, it is seeming a little weirdly paced and a tad bit thin so far. But not enough to make it a slog to read or bringing it down *too* much so far!
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Graphic:Disassociation, ClassismThank you Netgalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review! Representations: https://trello.com/c/0g8YKmS4/129-feast-and-famine-1-the-last-great-heir-by-carina-finn I really loved the characters!! They were super fun, the feasts were really different to the famine's so despite there being quite a lot of characters they *mostly* were pretty easy to tell apart. I mainly just mixed up the mums and the uncles but that didn't really cause that many issues tbh. The main characters had super interesting POVs and I really loved how they played off of each other and especially how their chapters contrasted. Very nice use of essentially 2 different class brackets and how the families interact with the town!! The plot and world-building was genuinely super interesting. It felt a tad "2 warring families" generic at the start but then evolved into something really lovely! It did remind me a lot of the Witch's Duel in S1 of Owl House lol, but that might also just be my brain being too obsessed with TOH 😂 The lore though is written in a very lore-dumpy way, which does make sense due to how the kids learn about things and the fact they also kinda have to learn it all, but yeah it is largely just told to you. There is some really nice things around showing how the 2 families interact with the town but even then those things end up being just explicitly told to you as well. I didn't find it was as bad as other things I've read, but it did knock the quality down a little. Another thing I absolutely loved about this is the descriptions! Food and clothes specifically were so vibrant and vivid it was fantastic! And the recipe at the end? Honestly might have to make those they sound absolutely delicious 🤤 Reading the authors note at the end to see the author is a food writer honestly didn't surprise me haha, they sure used those skills very well here!!
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