Blisskin (Spiritkin)

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The night Rivertide fell, Jiika Daileaf lost everything. Now, far from home and moving deeper into unfamiliar lands, she is beginning to understand why. Travelling with an aging balmsmith with a complicated history, Jiika carries a secret she has not found the courage to share — a bond with a rare and extraordinary creature that makes her something uncommon in the world, and an ability she is only beginning to trust in herself. She is afraid of what the secret might cost the people who have placed their faith in her. She has not yet told them — and that silence has a weight of its own. Across Väelwyn, Spiritkin are vanishing. Inside the institutions meant to protect the world, something has gone quietly, terribly wrong. The young balmsmith prentice sent to carry a warning may already be too late. And the darkness that destroyed Rivertide was not finished when it left. It is looking for her. With Izzprr — bound to her in ways that make thought and feeling between them as natural as breath — and a small circle of people she is learning to trust, Jiika moves deeper into a world older and more dangerous than she imagined. What she and her companions discover will change everything they thought they knew — about Väelwyn, about each other, and about themselves. Blisskin is the second book in the Spiritkin series — a story of deepening friendship, hard-won trust, and the long journey back to believing you are worth saving.

Is Blisskin (Spiritkin) appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 13 and up.

This fantasy novel features a girl bonded to a magical creature fleeing an entity that destroyed her home. Content includes moderate peril, loss of home/community, and themes of self-doubt and found family.

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