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Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)
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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. Fantasy Romance. Possibly YA. It began with the kidnapping of the male lead as a kid, who had the power to nullify magic. [s]

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message 1: by Evecopera (last edited Jan 06, 2024 07:12AM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

Evecopera | 7 comments It was a duet. I read it in 2019. The world had prophecies and people in it had magical gifts.

While the young male lead was getting kidnapped, his magic handcuffs got deactivated, causing trouble for the kidnappers.

The female lead's power caused her great pain continuously. She could also hurt other people with her touch, so she wasn't allowed to touch anyone. Her power caused moving weird black lines on her skin. (I thought of them as under the skin tattoos).

He was kidnapped by the enemy, who was the female lead's father, for helping her out. Her father was a scary man/villain.
The first time she felt the absence of pain was when she touched him.
His only job as a prisoner was to keep in contact with her so she didn't hurt. Only when she touched him she didn't feel pain. He was the only one who could touch her without hurting himself.
They grew up together.

There were prophecies about the both of them which burdened the characters during the course of the series.
His was that he would kill her...? and hers was that she would cross the borders. They were from two opposing nations.

Spoiler ahead.
The plot twist was that they were exchanged as kids and the prophecies which had been dictating their lives since so long were not even their own.
He had already crossed borders as a kidnapped child. And during a torture session she had once stopped his heart. In this way they had already fulfilled the prophecies which had actually been meant for them.
Now they could be together.
In the final battle she used so much of her power that her black markings were pulled out from under her skin to above it. Now they didn't cause her pain.
(A random detail I remember is that they found a jar of eyeballs in one of the enemy's creepy office like place.)


message 2: by Annamariah (last edited Jan 06, 2024 08:56AM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

Annamariah | 292 comments I'm pretty sure you are looking for Carve the Mark and The Fates Divide by Veronica Roth.


Evecopera | 7 comments Annamariah wrote: "I'm pretty sure you are looking for Carve the Mark and The Fates Divide by Veronica Roth."
Oh my gosh! Yes!
I've been looking for these for so long. I knew I remembered a bluish cover but I thought it was a different book. Thank you so much.


Annamariah | 292 comments You're welcome! :)


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