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I received an ARC of this book at Book Con, and I’m so glad I did! Honestly, I needed a day to process this before writing a review, because oh my goodness. There’s so much here to process! I don’t want to go too much into it to avoid spoilers, but there’s a major twist here that you (likely) won’t see coming. And it absolutely changes the entire book.

At the beginning, I struggled getting into this because it was incredibly slow moving. The first half was really slow moving, actually. It was very atmosphere and Faring spends a lot of time building up the atmosphere surrounding this school, but I wanted something more to happen. Now, I’m wondering if I re-read it that I’ll catch more hints toward the ending. This is definitely a book that lends itself to a re-read, even if you know what’s coming.

Though I found the plot lagging, the characters were compelling (even if I didn’t always know what was going on). Mavi and Yesi especially helped to build the world as well, pulling us into this really odd school. I also really enjoyed that this was based in Pantagonian myth instead of something European. It made the story all the more compelling.

The creepy, haunting nature of this book makes it the perfect fall release. Keep it in mind when building your October TBRs because it will be out just in time!

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