I loved this one! Four girls on the verge of their 18th birthday start to remember hidden things from the past. I like how the story jumped time frames - it made it easier to follow than if it was just written chronologically. All the girls and their backgrounds were interesting. I would love to see more of them!

Four another powerful heroines based, entertaining, magical, Grimm-y, surprising stars!

As a fan of Grimm Brothers’ dark, gory, depressing stories which affected my first impressions about real life when I was a child, I happily devour anything written or named with “Grimm”! So when I got my kindle into my hands and saw this book on my shelf, I sang “Thank you, next, next” from Ariana Grande for NetGalley team members and I made my Shirley Temple tap dance (my version of Shirley Temple dance is drinking a big glass of Shirley Temple cocktail and foot fighting without any rhythm to terrorize my neighbors who are spying on me behind their curtains!)

But don’t think this a retelling of one of the bleak, sad, vulgar Grimm Brothers stories or any other fairy tales you know! This book is original, brand new, unique, exhilarating, special and fresh contribute to the fantasy world.

The story is about four sisters who represent different elements and possess different powers, not estranged but they completely forgot each other, resume different life styles.

There are so much visionary ideas that author brought into this book such as binding dreams, creatively developed fantasies and fairytales. And don’t forget the astrological approach to help shaping the characteristic behaviors, weaknesses and strengths. Interestingly four sister always reminds me of March Sisters, with their different characters, different POVS and different life paths.

Goldie represents the earth element, working as a maid at a Cambridge hotel, stealing from the customers to buy her brother Teddy new clothes.

Liyana, colorful girl, immigrated to the UK from Ghana, represents water and the only queer character of the book, has a secret girlfriend. Her dreams to be an Olympic level athlete float after her tragic accident. Now she needs to deal with injured leg and her new life choices.

Scarlett represents fire, working at a family café and taking care of her grandmother who is suffering from dementia.

Finally Bea is an art student of Cambridge College, represents air, a real ambitious, hard worker, trying to get rid of her over controlling mother who forced her to make different life choices.

This book is not easy reading because of its too many POVS (not only four sisters, we actually have Leo, too!
And of course don’t forget the younger version of the characters’ narrations. So they turned into 10 POVS: Ten voices are blaring out in my head which makes me want to sing Zombie from Cranberries) and moving back and forth between two timelines story-telling and don’t forget all those combined magical, original but also confusing dream-binding elements.

One of the timeline is now: The girls’ birthday at the Halloween is coming closer and many eerie, mysterious things start to happen around them. And other timeline belongs to 8 years ago: The sisters have met for the first time.

Without having any knowledge, four girls dream Everywhere: an autumnal, magical place. But they don’t know the danger is waiting for them at this place. Lumen Latros, half falling star, half human soldiers chase them to end their lives.

Maybe because I have fire sign, I mostly related with Scarlet and also loved Goldie and her street smartness. Of course Goldie and Leo gave us romantic chemistry that we need. Nobody says no to enemies to lovers attraction.

When we come to the end we see that girls finally learn the truth and curse they have to fight against. Only 33 days left to meet their father. They need to fight for their lives and save each other.

Pros: It’s creative, capturing, entertaining, magical, different, original reading.

Cons: Too many POVS, time jumping, confusing way of story-telling and I truly disliked Bea as a character and wanted to skip her parts immediately.

As a summary: this is not my 5 stars reading but I found the story is promising, entertaining and riveting enough to be still curious to learn and read more about the characters’ journeys (instead of Bea!!!) So I’d love to read the sequels and enjoy more time with those sisters’ bounding.

Special thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins Publishers/ Harper Voyager to share this fantastic ARC COPY in exchange my honest review. And I’m so happy to read one of the works of Menna Van Praag. I cannot wait to read her previous and future works.

I must admit I had an immediate and visceral dislike for this book, based largely on early scenes of sexual harassment and near assault that were simply ignored and/or underplayed. The world is dark and cruel and I found little of interest or value within the story (despite the authors evidence effort to make meaning throughout)