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The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska
4.0

On a small island, their land is sinking... and the only way to save this sinking island is to sacrifice a boy to the Witch Queen. If the Witch Queen loves the boy enough she will set him free and sacrifice herself... and only one boy has ever gotten away. Every year a Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace... and this year Lina Kirk is convinced her brother is the sacrifice and will do anything to protect him. In order to save him, she enlist the help of Thomas Lin, the only boy to have survived a Witch Queen and whom she’s secretly been in love with. But in their attempt to save her brother the Witch Queen sets her sight on sacrificing Thomas.... until Lina goes to save him and offers herself up as the sacrifice if her brother and Thomas are set free, The current Witch Queen is Eva, her sister Natalia was the previous Witch Queen who had sacrificed herself to save Thomas and now Eva wants revenge. She wants to destroy the boy who had taken her sister from her, who had lied and deceived her, who had ruined the only person she ever loved. But to her surprise she meets Lina. Lina and Eva are enemies from the moment they meet, yet with all that fire between them, they start to slowly understand one another. The love they have for the people they care about, the lengths they’d go to to protect them, and the sacrifices they are willing to make. Two girls, one curse, and a history of pain they each have, but beneath all their suffering, just might be something more. I quite enjoyed this!