Thank you so much to the publisher and NetGalley for sending me an eARC of this book in exchange for my honest review!

I didn't quite know how I would feel going into this book, but it's safe to say that after reading it...I'm hooked. I loved the worldbuilding and the characters in this (Talon...swoonworthy. That's all I have to say.). I enjoyed the romance thoroughly, even as it went through its ups and downs.

Honestly, I loved the fact that I had no clue what was going to happen next at any point in the story. This surprised me so many times, and that's not something that happens very often while reading YA for me anymore. I loved the politics, the magic system (where people have a "boon", a magical gift or talent of something very specific that they can do), and the only part that I didn't love was the ending.

Y'all know I hate a cliffhanger, and boy did this book have one. Don't get me wrong, I'm reading the next one. But if you don't love getting to the end of a book and having it just...be over at an extremely critical moment in the plot, consider this your warning.

Anyway, I gave this four out of five stars and I absolute can't wait to see what Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton do with the next book.

I dnf’ed on page 394. Honestly I just couldn’t connect with the character and I found I didn’t give a hoot about them. That and the plot seems to be heading nowhere specific. Like the only action stuff happened at the beginning.