Room of Requirements based mystery set in dark academia vibes, with a feisty found family trope looped in for fair measure..
Adriana Mather brews a potent magic in this magical setting, in a dystopian society where magic and its practice is rigorously controlled and the elite are able to wield all four magics while the laborers struggle to get their one magical class assignment. It all depends on their performance in the Academy's entrance exam. but deep in the hallways of magic something incongruent occurs when the star pupil and lowly laborer are assigned each other's faces instead of the magical class they truly belong to, and especially when they produce the mystical archive key. Issued a two week reprieve from the Chancellor, Grayson and Eloise stumble their way through the typical and atypical teenage mores of societal adaptation, fake dating and living high stakes, lie-based and life and death variety of excitement, with the undercurrent of fatal attraction.
Eloise and Gray traipse through the hallways of the academy, fending off spies, testing their magical synchronicity and finding their own selves and acceptance to the way things work and what they are willing to sacrifice to achieve their goals. Add in a nefarious and tyrannical uncle, a sister who sings all the time, backstories with sorrow at their heart and finally, a poetic reveal on how magic operates...
My absolutely favorite was Maggie - utterly and bewitchingly wonderful!!! More than Eloise herself, I fell in love with the brash, brutal and frankly scary Maggie!!
My alchemical thank yous to Macmillan Children's Publishing Group and Netgalley for providing the ARC! best read with spicy pumpkin chai under a warm and cozy blanket with a tart, of course!
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