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A Touch of Darkness by Victoria Ellis
5.0
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

Oh my gosh! Where to even start with this one?! I loved it. Absolutely loved and DEVOURED it. I started reading this morning while enjoying my coffee, couldn’t stop thinking about it while cleaning up the house, and ended up binging it the rest of the dayπŸ₯Ή I am SO thankful that Victoria is doing a rapid release for this duology so I only have to wait a couple weeks! I would be dying otherwiseπŸ˜…

𝑺𝒉𝒆’𝒔 π’‰π’π’Žπ’†. 
π‘΄π’š 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓. π‘΄π’š π’π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’•π’Žπ’‚π’“π’†. 

After arriving at Blackthorne University, Sylvie’s twin, Lara, goes missing. Something is wrong with this University, but she can’t quite put her finger on it or the draw she feels to Professor Lucian Draedon. With the help of her new friends Rebecca and Nicole and the secretive Prof. Lucian, Sylvie is quickly sucked into an ancient prophecy, bonds that span lifetimes, and a fight with an ancient order intent on wiping out supernatural beings. 

𝑰 π’˜π’Šπ’π’ 𝒅𝒐 π’˜π’‰π’‚π’•π’†π’—π’†π’“ π’Šπ’• π’•π’‚π’Œπ’†π’” 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒕𝒐 π’Œπ’†π’†π’‘ 𝒉𝒆𝒓 π’ƒπ’š π’Žπ’š π’”π’Šπ’…π’†. 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏 π’Šπ’‡ π’Šπ’• π’Žπ’†π’‚π’π’” π’…π’‚π’Žπ’π’Šπ’π’ˆ π’Žπ’šπ’”π’†π’π’‡ 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 π’‚π’ˆπ’‚π’Šπ’. 

Sylvie’s distrust in everyone had me in her corner no matter what she would have chose. I was with my girl to the end! So much is going on while my girl just needs a second to absorb it all. I loved the friendships she made with the girls, and while Lucian came off like an ass a few times, it was what she needed in the moment. I love that he never sugar coated anything for her. 

β€œπ’€π’π’– 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 π’‡π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’• π’‡π’‚π’Šπ’“, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 π’π’π’˜, π’π’†π’Šπ’•π’‰π’†π’“ 𝒅𝒐 𝑰.β€œ

Lucian finally coming clean and Sylvie’s reaction was everything. You could really tell how much she had grown in such a short amount of time. The ending was one extreme cliffhanger and I NEED to know how it ends😭 I cannot believe what I just read! I’m so excited to see her fully come into her powers and see how her relationships with everyone developsπŸ–€

Thank you so much to the author and Hayling Bookstorm PR for the gifted copy!