Genre: YA Fantasy
Pages: 400
Published: 2022
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Publisher’s Synopsis:
“A snarky seventeen-year-old must team up with an enigmatic criminal to cure herself of dangerous forbidden magic in the first book of a new fantasy duology from Morgan Rhodes, the New York Times bestselling author of the Falling Kingdoms series.
Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: it’s rare, illegal, and always deadly. So when she’s caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the Queen’s Gala and infected by a dangerous piece of magic—one that allows her to step into the memories of an infamously evil warlock—she finds herself living her worst nightmare. Joss needs the magic removed before it corrupts her soul and kills her. But in Ironport, the cost of doing magic is death, and seeking help might mean scheduling her own execution. There’s nobody she can trust.
Nobody, that is, except wanted criminal Jericho Nox, who offers her a deal: his help extracting the magic in exchange for the magic itself. And though she’s not thrilled to be working with a thief, especially one as infuriating (and infuriatingly handsome) as Jericho, Joss is desperate enough to accept.
But Jericho is nothing like Joss expects. The closer she grows with Jericho and the more she sees of the world outside her pampered life in the city, the more Joss begins to question the beliefs she’s always taken for granted—beliefs about right and wrong, about power and magic, and even about herself.
In an empire built on lies, the truth may be her greatest weapon.”
My Review:
The first book in a YA fantasy duology. It was such an fun read and I couldn’t put it down. In a world where magic is deadly and illegal, seventeen-year-old Josslyn Drake’s pampered lifestyle is forever altered when she is accidentally infected by a powerful relic. In order to rid herself of this magic before it corrupts her, she allies with a criminal warlock, Jericho. But Joss learns that there is a much deeper plot at work, the world of magic, and even Jericho himself, is nothing like what she has been made to believe her entire life.
The magic system is colorful and intricate. The slow-burn, enemies to lovers is exciting. The series of events in all its twists and turns keeps you turning the pages, with never a dull moment. It’s everything you expect from this genre and doesn’t disappoint.
I can’t wait for the next one!
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