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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Elizabeth Lim has returned with another book weaving cultural tales into a fantasy. This story was beautiful and intriguing. The character growth Shiori experiences was fantastically done. While she holds to her moral groundings, she still actively becomes a better person. And sometimes, poison is medicine. The romance in this story is truly a semi-unrequited slow burn for the majority of it. This is one of my preferred forms of romance in books, and I loved the way it played out altogether. The ending of this book had me on the edge of my seat. I wanted nothing more than a happy ending for Shiori, her brothers, and Takkan. I really loved the way it was set up for the second book. This was a fantastic story, weaving lore, romance, and life lessons all together in the end.

“And this too, I will overcome.”

Full review will be published on July 5th, 2021.