Mari is amazing and I loved how much Bowen shoved his foot in his mouth but because we get his POV we know he doesn’t mean the things he says the way he says them (can’t get that in real life with a man 🥲) 

That said I almost gave this book a 3.75 because the ending

with her self-enthrallment and some of the other witch stuff was just straight up confusing? I think more context/explaining would have been a tad helpful.

 

I will say it took *finishing* the book to retroactively piece together some of the magic logic. But the way Nix’s predictions played out were 10000% delicious

and made Bower’s grief so much more understandable. Eff Mariah for enchanting him just to run away from him 😭

so that is why I ended up giving 4 stars.