The plot was creative and fun with all the twist and turns I love in a fantasy book. Hoping for more fleshed out character development in the next one. I wanted know more about Grim, Oro, and all the other rulers. Being more invested in them would have made Isla an even stronger character, which would have created a stronger novel as a whole. I was intrigued by them and felt like I only got a small gist of who they were as rulers. I feel like I understood Isla the most, as she was the main character, but I felt like wanted I wanted to be more invested in the other characters. I think this book would have thoroughly benefited from further character development.

'There are lies and liars all around you' INDEED. I really enjoyed this book, and I can't wait to see where the sequel goes! It was very cruel to end it with it opening up! And finally, there's whatever is inside the vault. Plus there's whatever dark things that would happen without Nightshade magic.

Then there's Grim, and the memories that he took from her-that he seems to think will bring her back to him once she remembers everything. There's Cleo and the Moonlings, given the breaking of their island from the mainland, and the army they seem to have built, that's going to be trouble. There's quite a few things that are open for the next book. I mean, they've spent 500 years trying to break the curses, but part of that means that one of the rulers has to die (which will also kill all of their kind) I had a great time watching Isla maneuver around all of the politics, the secrets and the lies! With the Centennial, and the curses, the history and the magic of this world were pretty interesting. But other then that, it's a pretty enjoyable story! The book itself, it's pretty good, it just could've used a bit more polishing, some of the phrasing was weird, some things were described weirdly.

I couldn't put it down!īefore going in, I do know that there were some criticisms about this book, about how it got published and why. I had such a blast reading this book! The synopsis sounded intriguing, and I wanted to know more about these realms and the curses that they were under-and the lengths that they would go to, to be free of the curse.

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