I really enjoyed this one! The writing is beautiful and kind of lulled me the way really good storytelling can. I loved Lola and how she worked with her brother and how it seemed like her family accepted her despite the danger and the social norms.

I love how this book talks a lot about moving to indigenous land for something that benefits some and seems like a victimless act. But there are always consequences and using someone else’s land and magic without understand it is always dangerous and harmful and you could see how the characters even started to forget that it want their land to begin with. It shows how easily indigenous erasure can occur when if you are not intentionally trying to harm.

The magic system was simple and powerful and the combating forces and all the different ways they could be use and how it highlighted people’s different ideas do what is “for the best”.

Audiobook note: I love this narrator and the passion in her voice and the melodically way she narrators really captivated me in this story.

Thanks to the publisher for an ARC and free audiobook; my thoughts and review are my own.