“No matter where we are, I’m always home when I am with you.”

I have found a new fantasy series to obsess over! When I started reading this, I wasn’t expecting this to go by so fast and for me to be immersed in the world of the book almost instantly. The reason why I couldn’t finish this sooner was because I was travelling and let me tell you… all I wanted was to crawl back into the book. 😩 can you imagine my frustration when I was 85% done and THINGS were happening and it was tense as heck and I had to put the book down?! Almost screamed 😭

I really enjoyed the characters and the world. It truly did feel like the Peaky Blinders met the Grishaverse and decided to produce this love child. ♡ However, this also had its own magic system and lore. I found the magic system and the world structure fascinating, especially the way the origins of magic were explained. The reason for the rating, to be fair, lies in the initial exposition to this system. I was confused at first and it was more of a ‘figure it out as you go’ kind of approach… which was for the most part manageable. However, I was extremely confused at first, almost like I had missed a prequel about all this  😅.

Milla and Nico gave all the tension and chemistry 🤍. You could tell they REALLY tried to dislike each other despite their attraction — delivered sworn rivals. I’m slightly embarrassed that there were moments in this that had me giggling… like don’t let anyone ever see me like that 🫠. Marriage of convenience served too — every “my wife” or “husband” further contributed to the giggling ♡ 🤭.

I didn’t appreciate that little semi-cliffhanger though!? In fact during that last 10% I was TENSE. The developments?? I kinda figured out one of the revelations but the way it happened was still so good. We somehow got more than what I was expecting 🤌. 

Of course I’m reading the sequel! 🙂‍↔️