This is totally a cover buy! I mean look at these covers are they not beautiful? They make you want to know more. I have to say that when I started this story it kind of irked me just a little. I guessed that Nazafreen was going to have the power/gift and well that is just what happened. I really wished that the author would have found a way to make her not have the gift. I think that would have been more interesting. That she learned to work the cuffs without it or something. My next issue was this girls name. I mean really has this world not heard of nicknames? I ended up calling her Naza through the entire book after about saying her name three times. Its just way too long. So those are my issues with this one. The rest of this was mind blowing!

I loved how the story opened!! We get a look at the creatures that this world is fighting and my god is was so good!! The writing style was so easy to follow and I always knew what was going on and who was what and where. I was never lost and the story flowed so well. This is a slower book to start out with. We spend time with Naza and really learn what makes her tick. From the loss of her sister, to joining the Water Dogs and being bonded. This is one story that is slow burn before it gets on a horse and takes off on an adventure.

The characters are ones that I have fully fallen in love with. The romance between Naza and Darius was perfect and I can not wait to see where the end up in book two and three. The evil, side character, and other cast were all so amazing when people went bad and things started happening you just are so shocked that you don't process it until long after and then you are a like what were they thinking its just so mind blowing amazing!

The plot/storyline with this one fabulous! We get this beautiful, dark, and dangerous world that Ross has created and I loved ever second of being in it. The Druj and Daevas are so well thought out simple but not. Their power/gift is easy to understand and I don't feel like you have to have a background in anything to get what is going on and how it all works.

The ending brings us full circle. We have gotten all the information that we need to really understand the world and the characters. And we are left with somewhat of a cliffhanger. So make sure to have book two close at hand!!