2.5 ⭐️

Thank you to Netgalley, Entangled Publishing and Lily Crozier for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for a review.

I went on quite the journey with this book. The first 50% was extremely slow and struggled to grab my attention. I sadly got a bit bored and fell into a bit of a slump, and even leaned towards putting this into the DNF pile. But once I reached about 60% onwards the book flew by.

The first half of the book is extremely different to that of the second, with the second half falling more into those more fantasy romance elements that I tend to gravitate to more and becoming my favourite section once we reached the plot point. I loved seeing the found family element emerge, and that Moira/Enrique also got to have their moments to shine too.

Whilst there were occasional plot holes, and a complete divert of focus at times which left some confusion or unanswered question. Along with some clunky writing, I was still keen to know the ending of the story and see how the characters would develop.

I did eventually grow to enjoy this book a little bit and would recommend to those who love a real slow burn, but with the romance element sometimes not being the driving point. I would additionally recommend checking and trigger warnings as some hard topics were touched upon.