I received an ARC through NetGalley and this is my voluntary and honest review.

Evie is a university student who doesn't remember her life before she was four years old, when her mother disappeared. When an old friend shows up, she learns that her mother is from a magical parallel world, where she was hunted by a dark cult who is looking for the family heirloom Evie has.

There wasn't anything objectively wrong with this book, but it wasn't right for me. I kept waiting for that spark of uniqueness or excitement, and it just never came. The characters are okay, but no big love. The love triangle with the two brothers was sort of awkward. The magic system is interesting, but why do they keep insisting on calling it not-magic. I think the Blair-Evie relationship could be interesting in the future, but we haven't really gotten there in this book yet. There's a lot of potential, but it didn't hit the right points with me.

It might hit better with people who like art history, since there is a plotline involving a real-life artist and famous paintings.