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Thank you Scarlett Press and Net Galley for providing the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Welcome to New Found Haven. A corrupt surveillance state divided into three rings and ruled by a masked elite in the ring referred to as the Heart. Mercy does not exist and to love outside your ring is a death sentence. This masked elite regime will do whatever it takes to keep their power.
In the outer ring called the Boundary a group of mercenaries referred to as Daggermouths take contracts to eliminate high value targets. Our first main character Shadera Kael is a Daggermouth who is handed a contract for Greyson Serel, the Presidentâs son and Executioner. Every day, Greyson must put rebel sympathizers and lawbreakers to death in a public display meant to keep the outer rings under the Presidentâs thumb. But, when the mission goes wrong Shadera is forced into an arranged marriage with the very man that she was sent to kill. This is a true enemies to lovers romance set in a very dark post apocalyptic style world.
This was such a trip. Wolfe does an excellent job of portraying survivor characters. And that is what this ultimately covers is people surviving the horrors that have been done to them. I really liked Shadera as a main character and Greyson was a fascinating MMC. Their relationship was so interesting as they truly simultaneously hated each other and wanted to bang each other. The tension was tangible through each of their scenes and I thought Wolfe handled the changes and shifts of that really well.
There were so many excellent side characters and the villain was President Snow coded in a way that I hated him so viscerally while I was reading. The ending was explosive and had some amazing twists and turns. I do think there was one that I saw coming a mile away and there was another that I am not sure that I could go back and find the breadcrumbs for. This did not detract from my overall enjoyment of the story.
Definitely check this out if you grew up loving Hunger Games or Divergent, this is one for you.
Trigger Warnings for assault, physical violence, rape, execution, misogyny, torture and oppression based on class and sex.
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