Ziva is forced into a breakneck race to a nearby city with the handsome mercenary, Kellyn, and the young scholar, Petrik, to find a powerful magical healer who can save her sister’s life. I won’t spoil what she names them, but it had me feeling like “yes queen!”.In Master of Iron, the conclusion to Tricia Levenseller’s exciting Bladesmith YA fantasy duology, a magically gifted blacksmith with social anxiety must race against the clock to save her beloved sister and stop a devastating war.Įighteen-year-old Ziva may have defeated a deadly warlord, but the price was almost too much. Her magical weapons are being used against her friends, and it is the ultimate definition of bad ass when she reclaims new war hammers for herself.

Ultimately what keeps her fighting against armies is the ever burning need to protect the people she loves most. With each fight, she gets better while feeling worse.

All throughout, Ziva hates hurting people but she knows it’s necessary. There is a lot more fighting amongst warlords, kings, and princes in this book. Thank you to Tricia Levenseller for turning up the heat on their romance! It also helps that she finds him to be a nice kisser 😘 . Kellyn is definitely key to her learning to trust herself, and make decisions that put herself first. Friends along the way learn how to best support her, and set her up in ways when she needs a good push. It’s not that her anxiety is ever cured, it is a path of lessons that teach her better coping methods. In Master of Iron, we’re taken through a wonderful progression of character for Ziva. Now that she’s exposed to love, friendship, and too many strangers, she is constantly fighting against her instincts to run and hide. With severe social anxiety, Ziva successfully hid in her forge for years. Along the way, she is thrown in to several battles that are not only physical combat with others, but also mental battles with herself. Her primary mission is to get her sister to a magical healer before it’s too late. In Master of Iron, Ziva is widely known for this ability and always being chased by people in power. We learn of her ability to magic weapons that she creates with iron. Ziva is a talented and complex character. This series features a heroine that many of us didn’t know we needed. Loving all things Marvel, and her books, she has completely won me over as a lifelong fan. When Thor forged his new axe in “Avengers Infinity War” she realizes she needed to write about magical weapons. I recently met Tricia Levenseller on her tour for Master of Iron, and she shared her inspiration for this duology with magical weapons. Before I begin raving about this book, and the whole duology altogether, I have to share its origin story.

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