Huge thank you to Sourcebooks Fire for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

Be forewarned, this sucker is 500+ pages. For a YA novel, that is a chonky book. And it’s the first of a series as well. This one took me a minute to get into. We start into a prologue from a cat’s point of view of the pharaohs and witnessing a divine birth of triplets. From there we jump to the triplets at 17 on the verge of attending the festival of Bast. 

We get other narratives in the subsequent chapters painting a picture of what life is like in this world modeled on ancient Egypt. Right now my absolute favorites are Neff and Karim. I love how both of them are starting to weave into the larger thread of the story. Ah, and Rae!

This story is incredible and sweeping. It marries together the magic of Egyptian gods and goddesses, palace intrigue, rebellion and human nature to be better. It’s written in such an engaging g way that you can’t help but feel you are IN the story. And that ending. My god, that ending was chef’s kiss perfect. Stunning!

I will definitely be getting a physical copy when it releases on May 6 and reading the rest of the series!