Breanne Randall has mastered the craft of telling a story which captures the small town charms, the coziness of family dinner rituals and threads that bind the found family and sisterhood amidst broken dreams and messed up magic systems, with a fiesty heroine and enemies to lovers vibes!! Phew!! Didn't think my first sentence would be a paragraph by itself...
Calliope Petridi. Eurydice and Thalia (named after Muses, of course!) guard the Dark Oak, a mysterious, magical and powerful plague, which is guarded generationally by three sisters, whose magical invocation reaps memories. With a missing mother and aunts, the threading binding the oak are fraying and it is upto Calliope to keep it together without sacrificing her memories such that she loses her sense of self.
Sparks and sizzling begin when Calliope binds herself to the powerful, enigmatic shadowcraft coven leader, Lucien. Armed with holes in her memory, a rift between the sisters, doubts as to her nemesis' true motives, Calliope grows as a witch, sister and becomes her own whole person, confronting her past and accepting grace for her misgivings.
Some stories leave you flustered, and other stories don't have mystery in them, this book is just right - you are left wondering and yet, when the curtains peel back, it is completely satisfying and you are left with a content feeling of having a read a nourishing tale.
A million thank yous to Breanne for the beautiful tale and special thanks to Random House Publishing Group - Ballentine and NetGalley for the magnificent ARC!
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