#BookTour Legacy of the Brightwash (Tainted Dominion #1) by Krystle Matar Plus giveaway (International)



Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar

Series: Tainted Dominion (#1)

Published: February 18, 2021

Genre: Grimdark Fantasy, Gaslamp Fantasy

Pages: 662 (Print Length)




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CW: Miscarriage, Addiction, Substance abuse, Prisoner abuse, Body horror, Gore, Violence, Police brutality, Racism, Torture

A body of a dead girl has washed up on the river bank, visibly mutilated. Her hair shaved close to the scalp with numbers tattooed on the back of her neck.

It isn't the job of Tashué Blackwood to investigate this case, he has his hands full with plenty of work and cases already as a Regulations officer for the Authority. It is his job as a tinman to make sure the "Tainted" are kept in their place, and if they aren't compliant it's off to the Rift, (The Residential Institute for Feral Tainted and Non Compliant)  a place he knows too well as his son is locked away inside for not wanting to register is Talent. 


But there is something about this girl and what has happened to her that eats at him.  And no one else seems to care. 


"What comfort was there to have a world where children has been abused so horribly and then discarded, and no one else seemed to care."


 Tashué for nineteen years has been working this job and for nineteen years he has believed in all the things that the Authority stood for, but now he's not so sure.


"How was I suppose to know? My mother told me all my life follow the laws and you'll be safe"


Legacy of the Brightwash is a gritty and dark multiple point of view gaslamp fantasy with a mystery through out. It is also a debut novel and if this quality of story and writing is a debut, I just have to say look out fantasy readers we are in for a treat with Krystle Matar. 


The story from the start keeps you hooked. As you get sucked in the quicker you go through the pages and you don't realize that in the real world time has passed you by because you are too absorbed in the action, the lives of the characters and the story over all. Matar's writing both story and pacing is combination that keeps you turning the pages and wanting more.


Matar has written her characters very well. They are interesting, broken, full of emotion and they all have something that drives them. They way the author weaves the worldbuilding into the story paints a clear yet bleak picture.


I wish I had this in a physical format, it would be tabbed up so I can go back and re-read some of the beautiful quotes that I came across.  The writing in this book is some of the best I've read. There are moments through out this book that I FELT. Krystle Matar knows how to write. The raw emotions that jumped from the page, the fire and passion, the force at which banter and other exchanges where being made. The characters feelings came across so powerful. They weren't just words on a page but feelings brought to life. 

I cried, I gasped, laughed and I felt the fear, disgust and despair. 

Bravo

Find it on both Goodreads & Amazon





Krystle Matar has been writing for a long time, but things got serious when Tashué Blackwood walked into her life, an amber-eyed whirlwind.

When she isn’t arguing with him or any of his friends, she parents and farms. She has a lot of children and even more animals and one very excellent husband.

She is currently working on lots of stories set in the Dominion. She expects to exist in this universe for a while

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