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adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
adventurous informative mysterious slow-paced

plot interesting. writing style eh.

fódla needs to grow a backbone. girl. you are over one hundred. stop listening to your ex situationship. and i just hope author is trying to subvert typical romance tropes and won’t have her end up w murchad. bc what even.

gormflaith’s entire pov was something like: i need to leave before the descendants find me. but my son! i must stay to help sitric! sitric is so stupid and ungrateful. he should listen to me and do what’s best for his survival even if it brings shame on him. i know best. i am the true power in dublin. but what if people start to notice that i dont age? i should leave before the descendants find me…




This just wasn’t keeping my attention and the plot/names were hard to follow. Might pick up again. 
adventurous tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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lucybbookstuff's review

4.5
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I really liked this!! I'm very eager to continue the story!

I could feel that basically this entire book was living in setup territory. It was very captivating - the historical aspect and political intrigue especially kept me turning pages. I definitely learned a lot about Irish history and had fun doing it. The prose was very readaable.

I didn't get a lot out of the characters just yet. I like the two main characters, and I enjoy that they are such good foils for each other. I'm really looking forward to everyone's arcs. But I felt that most of the characters' actions and interactions were quite cliche and predictable. I didn't have any big emotional reactions to anything in this book because nothing particularly surprised me.

Still greatly enjoyed this. This is firmly a setup book, but it did that job perfectly. I am so looking forward to how the plot goes, what arcs are in store for the characters, and how the magic will be woven into it more.

Extremely impressive debut here, and I can't wait to dive in further.
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rmcleodreynolds's review

5.0
adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes