Magical and beautiful and romantic. Full of love and loss and family. Hope to see a book two!

4.5 stars (though rounding up to a 5) because even though it took me a bit longer than I’d like to get into “crusing mode” (where I’m hooked and invested and don’t want to put the book down), once I hit it around 70ish pages, it was on & I was totally down for the adventure! And I must say, while I had a few inklings early on about who could or couldn’t be trusted in this novel, I was dead wrong about the majority of it! In fact, I didn’t even see most of the twists in the book, and while I had a few questions that made me not understand where the story was headed or how certain plot lines came to be- all questions were answered with a pretty little bow. And while this book is a standalone right now, I do hope she’ll write a second down the line. Anyways, the story mainly goes through the point of view of two half sisters in their twenties who have not seen one another in a decade, when the older sister left the home without any explanations. It also follows through the point of view of a young man who has magical blood that can write spells and is fairly sickly, and the story weaves a tail of how they are all connected. While I have read plenty of books about witches and spells, magical scribes and ancient libraries, I did find some of this authors take to be original enough that again- I wasn’t able to figure out the ending. It was the perfect book to start and finish over Halloween week(end).

This book was wonderful. I’m always looking for books that are fantasy different. Would love to see this in a movie.