The Exiled (Dominion of Ash, book 2)

By Frost Kay

Blurb: 
The dead are supposed to stay dead.

Hazel's world had always been deadly, full of monsters and heartache, but the last thing she ever expected was to see her dead best friend alive, and consorting with the enemy.

Captured, betrayed, and imprisoned, she's determined to find a way out, even if it meant destroying the last connection she had to her old life. Even if it meant casting aside the only boy who'd ever loved her.

Love wasn't meant to survive the wastelands.

Review: 
This is book 2 in the series, it follows straight on from when Hazel tried to escape. 

Most of the book we follow her life living with the tainted and how they treat her. The start of this book is quite slow but by halfway the pace starts to pick up and it becomes more of an adventure. 

We soon start to realise in this book that Hazel does have a conscience and does start to care for the tainted, but only a selected few. She does still hate the majority of them but when she is sold to be a slave we discover her true feelings. She also attempts to escape a few more times because she wants to get back to her family, who wouldn't?

When she is a slave and working for the tainted is when I feel the story started to kick in and became more of an adventure and quite hard to put down. I also felt this is where Hazel developed the most and we seen her true personality. During this time as a slave there are a few scenes which could potentially be a trigger, for violence and potential sexual harassment. 

The story isn't what makes this book great it's the characters and their development. The story didn't develop as much as I would have liked for the length of it but overall I still found it a great book to read and would love to follow the rest of the series.

The ending of the book was a whole new story which is what keeps this series going. And as the books says trust no one!

Favourite Character: Noah

Read: 28/12/19 - 08/01/20

4 stars out of 5

Written by Sammie

Check out Sammie's review of the short story of the series: The Strain