So I didn’t get to this book before it was published because of some family issues. But once I was able to pick this up I was hooked! It was so good! From the very start, the way we got hooked on the main character’s dying wish to get a chance to do over all the mistakes she’d made. To go back and fix the problems she hadn’t seen as she’d helped those she thought she could trust. 

Fantasy doesn’t always grab me, often it takes me a minute or two to get into and it reads slowly for me because of all the descriptions the genre seems to include. However the author kept this story moving, kept me on the edge of my seat as I was reading, turning pages as quickly as I could just to see what would happen as Mingshin got to go back in time and re-do all that she felt she had misjudged or let happen. 

And right away things were different from the very first change she made. A new person came into play, one that from the start I wasn’t sure about. I mean from the very short end of her first life at the beginning, it seemed all the other princes weren’t any better than Ren was. So along with her, I kept hoping she’d remember not to let her guard down, not to think anyone was actually on her side, until they had proven in every way that they were. 

This especially was on my mind at the end when it seemed like maybe she’d taken another wrong turn. So when the person redeemed themselves, it worked perfectly with the story. The whole magic and other world that we got bits and pieces of at the beginning, and more as the story progressed really added to the story as well. While I think this shows as only a standalone, I feel like there is more we need, and I really hope for a sequel!