Thank you to NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review

This book is for anyone who has ever been a House of Anubis fan. I feel like Egyptian mythology is covered less often in current fantasy, we more often see Greek or Roman retellings etc, so this was quite refreshing!
Structure and plot wise, this book moved FAST. We start off on the first page with the funeral of our FMC, and then she is immediately off to boarding school. I wouldn't say it's the smoothest flowing story line however that said, I personally hate exposition so I really did love that I wasn't required to sit through going over the details - we just jumped straight into the story with mysterious figures, runes and hieroglyphics, and near death experiences. 
In terms of the setting of the story, in my mind we were almost in the exact same location as in Curious Tides with a looming school tucked away in a rough sea-cove. The unsettling atmosphere, themes of magic being based around the moon cycle, and even the references to students drowning in the cove, actually added significantly to the similarities so I would absolutely recommend this to dark academia fantasy fans who are looking for a rapid plot, and potentially a series (?) - since this was set up for a second book.