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What I loved: The characters in this story are so painfully human; it makes it easy to feel their pain as they choose between life and death for one character over another. The world-building and descriptions make it very easy to imagine that you are in the story. We have three main characters in this story that takes us on a very emotional journey. 2 shifters and a human in a world where magic is outlawed, but the land is threatening to tear itself apart so much that it has sicked many. Our trio must venture where once the shifters lived to try and saved the world.

What Left Me Wanting More: “Magic fights to survive” Survival is a driving theme in this book. Survival being with magic, Survival of those who don’t, and Survival of bloodlines from being destroyed by those who want to control everything. I wanted to know more about the prediction that has placed our two shifters at the forefront of the story. Two shifters to be the ones who end the world. We told it happens every year but not how they have dictated the very life of magical creatures.

The Final Verdict: At the close of this first book, after some profound truths revealed, Rora says, “I’m not the subject of anyone’s prophecy, there to assign meaning to however they like, but my person, a good person, my actions determined by my will alone. I’m one in a pair of shifters, both of us bent on mending the cracks in this broken world. Survivors.” Survivors of a prediction that shaped the very world they live in and survivors who are determined to set things right and have the truth come into the light.