I have… interesting feelings about this book.

I think that the premise was very interesting, but I think it actually could have benefitted by being a bit longer. The magical families to me never felt properly explained, and the treatment of Mercy didn’t really click for me, even with what we found out in the end. 

I think that the writing was all very surface, lacing some confusion with how the magic works. We never understood the depths of the characters, just the obvious emotions that would rise from whatever situation, and I would have loved to have better understood how Mercy’s family came to accept her rather than it just spontaneously happening in the name of family. 

I think mercy’s character also would have benefited from us watching her come into her power and the conflicting emotions. Not just her using it for grocery’s. 

Last- and honestly the most important (spoilers ahead!!!)

. I’m not a fan of unplanned pregnancy and it is something that can just completely turn me off of a book. That pregnancy truly came out of nowhere and after reading the plot of the next one, I’m not really sure I’m a fan of this pregnancy now taking center stage. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just not what I’m into. 

I don’t think I’m going to continue with the series. It doesn’t have world building at the level I enjoy and it seems to be focusing on topics that are not intriguing to me. It wasn’t a horrible read by any means! There was just too much lacking for me to feel any loyalty to it.