Review
For a debut, Wings of Life by Meghan Le Fay is an entertaining story with strong character growth, politics and war, delicious sexual tension, and a miscommunication trope that somehow just works to the story’s benefit.
Serae is the FMC you can root for, put in a situation that she has no control over. And when she gets to her destination, it’s a daily struggle to hold it together and keep up with trying to win over an entire kingdom with a hidden motive. As she gets to know her fellow trainees and the royal family, her sense of duty slowly becomes compromised. Especially when a certain sexy and handsome weapons master being an inconvenient distraction.
The author paces the story well, has not-in-your-face inclusivity with her characters, and an overarching plot that contributes to the main character’s storyline. If you love Fourth Wing, you will love Wings of Life.
Meghan Le Fay joins the Cantina Book Club Podcast to talk about her journey as a debut author and plans for the series. Keep an ear out for the interview and preorder Wings of Life, available May 26.
Book
Fans of enemies-to-lovers romance and epic dragon-filled fantasy will be swept into Le Fay’s Wings of Life, where duty, danger, and forbidden desire collide.
They cast me off to Rihtlond as a bride.
They don’t care if I come back alive.
Too sharp-tongued and too curious, I am my mother’s greatest lament and my father’s constant frustration. Unwilling to bow to their will, I’ve become expendable, worth sending on a mission doomed to fail.
Armed with nothing but a coded journal, a quill, and my wits, I’m thrust into the kingdom of our oldest enemy—a land of storms and warriors—to wed their high dane’s son. Trapped on their ruthless continent, I am no blushing bride. I’m a spy sent to unlock Rihtlond’s weaknesses… a cuckoo in the robin’s nest.
But my heart still bleeds red when the weaponmaster of these strange people steals it away. Through him, I learn to unlock their secrets. What I uncover is more dangerous than I ever imagined: magic thrumming in the roots of Rihtlond, a dragon hidden in plain sight, and a love I was never meant to feel. Holding this knowledge, I am meant to return home and bind myself to a future I was given long ago.
Now, as war rises and alliances crumble, I must choose between duty and desire, between the family who cast me aside and the bond that awakens who I truly am. To protect what I’ve found—and who I become—I must risk everything. Even if it brands me a traitor. Even if it costs me my life.
