Spoiler-free review of Trapped in Silver by Emily Sowden. 
 This review copy was sent to me by @oftomes publishing, thanks once again for the opportunity! 
 Rating: 4/5 stars 
 So, here we go. I'm not lying when I say that a spell was cast on me on page one. 
 First thing I remember thinking was something that sounded like "hell yes" . 
 It was a long time since I read a fantasy so well structured and written! 
 SYNOPSIS: 
 Courage comes from a shadowed place in our hearts; a blurred line that straddles love and sheer stupidity. 
 To seventeen-year-old Ava, wild woodcats, hungry stragglers, and simple-minded townsfolk are the evils she's grown accustomed to. But when Ethan, an unusual man with eyes of smoke and fire opal, enters her world she quickly understands that there are worse things out there than drunken men and carnivorous forest creatures. She's a specialised liar and a hell of a fighter, but against a group of animalistic men called Berserkers she struggles to survive the encounter as the desperate swing of a dagger is all it takes to change her life for good. 
 Half-dead and hunted by the Berserker's leader when he forms a monstrous obsession with her, Ava escapes his pursuit in an unfamiliar land full of impossible creatures, unlikely allies, and the man she doesn't know whether to kiss or kill. 
 But after dreadful news of her missing brother surfaces, Ava becomes more involved in the centuries-long war and begins to unravel the reasons behind her relentless nightmares, discovering truths long-buried in a violent history of love, loss and betrayal. 
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 I loved Ava's character sooo much, she's such a badass and you can tell that since the beginning of everything: you fight or you die, and Ava doesn't want to die. 
 In this book there's everything you can ask for: suspence, mistery, love and lots of fight scenes, which, for a fan of horrors like I am, is amazing. 
 The writing is so compelling and it doesn't let you put down the book, the world Emily Sowden created is just FRIGGING AMAZING and if you have the chance, go follow @the_eldryn_chronicles on IG, because there are some posts that give you an idea of how Ava's world was created. 
 I didn't give this book 5 stars though because I found it rather confusing the way reality and dreams at times are intertwined, and you just don't see where real life ends and dream begins. But I think that is mostly my problem. Because I am weird. 
 Oh and I forgot a thing: how cool is that at the beginning of each chapter there's the name (wonderfully written may I add) of the character point of view? I only saw it at chaper 17!! It was so little that I thought it was a doodle but then I realized it was a name. 
 Anyway, I highly recommend this book to all fantasy lovers, and... Hands up if you were put into #teamberserkers !!! 
 Coming February 7th!