The Healing Wars: Book I: The Shifter

"This book is the start of my favorite series the healing wars by Janice Hardy. I love it so much. The story is creative and unique. I literally haven't seen anything like it. We as a people are obsessed with the Supernatural leading to so many stories about them. Yet this mystical type of people is one you haven't seen before. It's something else entirely making it incredibly captivating. Basically, in their world certain people can heal others with their own magic like abilities. Theyre called Takers who can learn to become Healers. They take the pain and their bodies feel the energy themselves, then they dump that pain into a specific metal called pynvium. This is the way of the world. The main character, Nya is flawed. She can't push that pain into that pynvium, instead she can push it into other people. She pushes her luck too far one day, revealing her secret. (This next part has some spoilers but nothing the back of the book summary doesnt reveal) This leads to her being followed, but that's the least of her worries. Her sister who works for the League where Takers go to be trained ends up missing. Many of the League Healers go missing. Nya wants to save her sister but since she's the only one who can shift pain into something other than pynvium she's targeted. Especially when there is no more pynvium left. Eventually she has to rely on people, something she hasn't done for a long time. To save her sister she must do the unthinkable and stand up to the renowned and powerful League while also saving the other League healers too. She reveals so much about what's really going on while trying to hide her special ability. Otherwise she'll instantly be found out and taken to the Duke. It's a great book and it starts off my favorite series. I do recommend it."