“Nothing is free. Nothing is safe. Magic is love, but also, hate. It comes at a cost. You're found, and you're lost. Magic is love, but also, it's hate.”

In the mist-locked kingdom of Blunder, people are becoming affected with an illness that ends up giving them magic. Nothing ever comes free and this is no exception when it comes to magic. People who are discovered to have magic are executed and if someone is found harboring someone with magic, then this is a punishable offense as well. Elspeth spindle was infected, but no one knows she has magic and that magic just happens to be an ancient monster that calls the Nightmare who is trapped in her head. The Nightmare keeps her secrets and protects her. On a forest road, Elspeth encounters a mysterious highway man that changes her life. From there she is thrust in a treasonous and dangerous quest to find the twelve Providence Cards, which these cards are the key to curing the infections.

I am pretty much obsessed with any book Orbit publishes. This book I snagged on a Kindle  Daily Read and the #openlybookedbookclub picked this as their January read. I totally did not finish this book to participate in the discussion, but I am so very glad that they picked this one so I can actually read it instead of it sitting unread on my Kindle for a long time. 

One Dark Window is marketed as a gothic adult fantasy, but a lot of people argue that this feels more YA. To me it does not matter since I like anything fantasy. 

I totally could not put this book down since the world was so immersive. The infection that causes different types of magic was really interesting and I really want to see different types of magic and how they manifest differently in others. We
do see this, but we only get small glimpses, but it was still fascinating. 

The Providence Cards were pretty cool on what they can do if someone wields them and the consequences of using them too long. 

Then, we have the enemies to lovers trope between Elspeth and Ravyn, which was fun and I was rooting for them the whole time. 

I am really looking forward to the next book due to how this one ended! I highly recommend this book.