What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. YA Fantasy. Male protagonist is son of most evil dark wizard; travels with female love interest to defeat him? Characters have unique eyes. Read around 2013-2017. [s]
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Capn wrote: "Could your book be listed here?:https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
(Unusual or Unnatural Eyes)"
Unfortunately no, but thank you :)
Drat. The "gold flecks" in eyes detail has come up in other threads before, but from what I (briefly) saw, they were all portal fantasies. But feel free to check them yourself! (I just used the "search discussion posts" search box). I added two books to the Eye Colour list from those threads just now (again, neither sound like your book, but for the sake of accuracy):
Escape from Arylon
The House of Many Rooms
I found the book! It's Half Bad (2014) by Sally Green.
What's the Name of That Book???
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Half Bad (other topics)Escape from Arylon (other topics)
The House of Many Rooms (other topics)
Very minor spoilers ahead.
If I recall the book is set in a vaguely European fantasy world with good/light and evil/dark magicians. The male protagonist wields 'dark' magic (possibly shapeshifting or some sort of mind control) and his father is an infamous evil wizard. The protagonist is not on his dad's side. This is known from the blurb.
He is captured by the light wizards and I think basically given the choice to become a weapon against the dark or be killed/imprisoned.
The biggest detail I remember is about the characters' eyes; the author points out how every character's eyes look. Due to their magical abilities some eyes have flecks of gold or 'swirl', for example. There was one part in the book where the protagonist is looking in a mirror and comparing his eyes to everyone elses. His eyes are literally pitch black (same as his dad/dark magicians?), with a passage describing how you couldn't tell where his pupils started, and he ends up bumping his forehead against the mirror trying to see.
Another thing I remember is how surprisingly gruesome and depressing the book was. I'm pretty sure the protagonist is actually tortured at some point and really nothing good ever happened to him in the book.
Thank you!!