This book was a 6/5 ⭐️ read for me! I mean even from the very first paragraph I was hooked. 

In this book we follow Vis, an orphan who is trying to escape from ever ceding Will in the Hierarchy. Who knew this would be quite the journey for him as in his attempt to not cede Will he is adopted by a man who needs his help by finding out what happened to his brother at the Catenan Academy. And let me tell you this academy is hiding secrets galore!

I loved everything about this book, Vis caught my attention from the first page, he is extremely attentive to the world and people around him and I loved that we got to see him process in real time how to approach all of these situations. This book showed me that I would’ve been dead in the first few pages because my social anxiety could never. There was also soo much mystery surrounding the academy and what is truly going on there. This book definitely kept me on my toes because I felt like I couldn’t trust anyone but Vis and even when he would start trusting someone I just kept thinking the whole time, this person is going to switch on you. The idea of the academy itself was really unique to me and how they mirror the outside hierarchical pyramids and that the social dynamics where “if you’re in class 5 you only sit and talk to class 5”. Vis of course did not care about this and is breaking all the rules. But I’m glad he did, it was exciting seeing him make actual friends and not just using people like it seemed everyone around him did, he truly trusted his friends by the end. 

The ending of this book was wild, I knew pieces and parts of it would be taking place as you can see the foreshadowing as to what is taking place but Vis missed all of it lol. The ending still very much shocked me because we finally get to see what is kinda going on that academy. It of course leaves you with thousands of questions as well and I will be patiently waiting for the second book because I can’t get enough of this story!