I received an eARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

The book had a very strong start and I loved it, but it did end fast and I was a little bit disappointed by the end. There is a strong line in the story about family that connects the beginning and the end of the book, and the variety of emotions that different kinds of families bring,. I love that part of the book.

The story picked up from the first chapter, was very intriguing and set a lot of questions that I needed an answer for. We dive right into world-building with descriptions of their traditions and it is so interesting.
I love love love the writing style. I was only a couple of chapters in and my eyes were filled with tears. The scene setting is so wonderfully set, everything aiming for that emotion that wraps up the chapter and keeps you reading.
The wedding scene...beautiful, once again, with great world-building.

Willa, the main character, is a grumpy powerful heroine that's refusing her power, keeps all her thoughts to herself, choosing not to open up to her family, and it is such a lonely feeling. It takes the arrival of someone from the other clan for her to realize that she doesn't have to settle with the decisions that others made for her and to open up her heart and start listening to what she wants.

Callan is a lost soul who lost his identity in this whole "last people of the Clan" thing. It is a strange relationship with Willa, a childhood adventure that was misunderstood as the love of lovers but turned out to be just a cage for both of them.

As for Dempsey, I love the two sides of him that we see at the beginning. The soft, gentle side with Willa and the firm and commanding attitude with Callan. Willa and Dempsey have such a gentle growing connection with a lot of understanding and appreciation in both ways and cute banter between them.

The problem that I had with this book is the plot twists. They would show up in a chapter, wrap it up and that was it, in the next chapter we move on. Not a lot of attention to them, they were just there to change the course of the story. The problem that would be brought up within the scene, raised a lot of questions and connections that needed to be presented so that the certain plot twist would happen, but they were not addressed at all. Something just happened and we will leave it behind, not deal with it, not deal with the trauma that that has occurred, not deal with the people that must have been involved in the plotting against the main characters. They were important to the story, yes, and I do get that the accent was on character development, but that fast pace with the plot twist kinda suffocated the story.
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Overall I loved the writing style and the world-building. It was the plot that had some holes in it and it felt untold in some parts, but this is a book that I would recommend, and will read the next one.