Thank you Netgalley and Victory Editing for providing me with an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

I DNF'd this at 70%.

For the first half I was entertained. I liked the idea and the premise. But this book felt like it should have ended after the half way point. I have no interest to keep reading, I'm mostly just frowning at the book at this point.

Spoiler

The world building is lacking a bit. I don't understand, is the coven really strict or not? Do they have freedom or are they forced to work with the coven? So, Elle wants to find her sister but to do that she needs to become a keeper in her coven. Why? Because keepers job includes travel and that way she can travel to the country she was born in and where her sister lives. So she can't leave the coven? Yet, one of the other keepers says he does it for the money? So he chooses to be there? So Elle could just take off and go find her sister? Why doesn't she do that then? Is this situation like becoming a flight attendant so you can travel and see the world??? I've got no fucking clue. Elle should've just left, forget the coven.
OR if these witches and their covens are so nice then why wouldn't they take in both sisters? The non-witch sister could still have helped around and they wouldn't have been separated.

Also, these gods. They don't seem like they're ancient. They seem like petty teenagers. And of course the MC has to fall in love with one of them. Yet another book to the add to the list of ships with hundreds of years of age difference. Also, Victor is so annoying when he comes in to the picture. To the reader is so stupidly clear that he's not trustworthy and he's lying about something. But nooo, everyone just loves him because he's pretty and really good at magic. Like stupid good.

And then of course the love interest turns into a brooding mess and the MC wants to help him. I think ancient gods can help themselves. At this point in the book I was ready to push him off a cliff. I couldn't care less about this piece-of-shit god that only stirs trouble. All the gods should be pushed off a cliff so everyone else could just live their lives.

In the middle of the book there's build up to a scene that makes you think it's probably the end of the book. But it's not. And I don't really know where the book is suppose to go from there. Maybe I'd know if I'd kept reading but I honestly can't care less about these characters.

Something about this book feels really rushed. There's not much character development. I also get weirded out when high fantasy books have modern tech like phones or cars. Or really, just electricity. The description for this book sounds way more interesting than what this really is.

So yeah, I'm giving it two stars and I won't be coming back for a sequel.