Thanks to my friends at Avon for letting me read this book early! All thoughts are my own! 

I really enjoyed this book, and I’m very excited to read the next one! I actually didn’t realize this was going to be series, especially because I feel like this book ended in a way that I wouldn’t necessarily expect one. It wasn’t super open ended, but I’m excited that there will be more to this story. 

Suraya is an interesting main character. I feel like she didn’t have a ton of characterization outside having her powers and knowing how to make weapons. We see her with her family and best friend for a very limited amount of time at the beginning, leaving me not super invested in those relationships. When Lelah dies near the end, I couldn’t really be sad about it. We barely saw her in this book. The same goes for her family, who we saw a bit more of. I knew that Suraya loved and cared for them, as evident in her motivations for the choices she makes, but as a reader there wasn’t much to endear me to her family. I actually thought for a while that her father was going to end up being one of the bad guys. His willingness to leave Amma behind was strange to me, seeing as we were told that they were in love with each other. 

Suraya goes on quite the journey in this book. I really enjoyed watching her learn about the other groups of people and how they weren’t what she thought. I liked how she had to confront what she was raised to believe. Every time I wanted Suraya to make a smart choice, she did not. I was extremely frustrated and thoroughly entertained by her decisions. I know that for the plot it needed to be that way. She really comes into her own during this book, especially towards the end. Her relationship with Roshan was sweet. I’m a little worried we’re going to end up with a second love interest and a love triangle later on, as there was so much emphasis on “soul-fated” and how he wasn’t hers. I really hope that isn’t the case because I feel like they have a really good dynamic and bond with each other. I’d be really disappointed if something is manufactured to push her towards the “shadow daddy” type character that we meet periodically throughout this book. I hope my predictions about his character are true, but I will be waiting to see what Amalie does with that. 

Can’t wait to see what these characters get into in the next book!