I struggled with this book to start. I had a hard time with Gem. I didn’t like them very much. Their reaction was very understandable given all of their trauma, but I didn’t connect with them. However, the plot is GOOD.

Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tiny town of Gracie, Georgia. Part of a pantheon trapped on earth being reborn into generation after generation and some of them recalling their previous lives and some not. It was a fascinating concept. Gem can’t recall their past and struggles to reconcile what Willa Mae is telling them about them being in love over thousands of years and over dozens of lifetimes. And how does Enzo, the guy that Gem has been in love with for years in this lifetime, fit into this picture? Can there be room for a human in a relationship between gods? Does a human life matter in such a grand scale?

I didn’t pay enough attention at the start so I missed that the book is part of a duology, but now I will DEFINITELY be picking up the second book when it comes out.