5 reviews
If you liked Fourth Wing but wanted more emotional depth in the romance, start here.
Read it over a long weekend. The rites themselves are genuinely tense set pieces.
There's a lot of terminology in the first hundred pages. Push through, it settles, and the back half is excellent.
That specific romantasy thing where the magic makes the connection literal — done here with more care than most. Slow burn, extremely satisfying payoff.
All the emotional precision of her contemporaries with a genuinely interesting magic system on top. The starling imagery runs through everything. I devoured it.