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.