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tortorreads's review against another edition
5.0
Rating: 4.5/5
I received an eARC of this book for my honest opinion
This book did take me a minute to get into it, but only because I found myself a little confused at some parts but once I got through, I couldn’t put the book down.
The book starts off with one of the MC Brigid Heron in the past and we get to learn her story a little. However, you will then be zoomed into the future with Brigid, and you come to find out that she had no memories of anything in her past and you get to go on an adventure to figure out exactly what happened and to help her find a piece of her that is missing.
I really enjoyed every single character in this book. I loved getting to know Brigid, Luc Knightly and of course Ophelia & Finola. Ophelia & Finola are my favorite characters in this book, I loved how hilarious they’re to each other and others and on top of that they just want to help the village out and save everyone that they can. I can admit that I hated Luc at first, I thought he was just an ass but the more and more you get to know him, you come to understand his ways and how sweet he really can be. I loved Brigid a lot, I found her strength and determination to find the answers to her lost memories something I could connect with. Even her flaws when he came to that sexy trickster god Luc Knightly. Wow they really had some sexual tension/chemistry in this book.
I didn’t know how this book was going to end, if it was going to be a dud or if it was going to have a twist ending that left me saying WHAT! To my luck it was not, and Paige wrapped everything up into an amazing ending that left me saying AW!
The attention to details in Crutcher writing really helped to bring this little piece of heaven in Ireland, together for me. If you love books about loss, found family, magic and demons you should pick up this book and read it.
I want to thank Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for allowing me the chance to read and review this book for my honest opinion.
I received an eARC of this book for my honest opinion
This book did take me a minute to get into it, but only because I found myself a little confused at some parts but once I got through, I couldn’t put the book down.
The book starts off with one of the MC Brigid Heron in the past and we get to learn her story a little. However, you will then be zoomed into the future with Brigid, and you come to find out that she had no memories of anything in her past and you get to go on an adventure to figure out exactly what happened and to help her find a piece of her that is missing.
I really enjoyed every single character in this book. I loved getting to know Brigid, Luc Knightly and of course Ophelia & Finola. Ophelia & Finola are my favorite characters in this book, I loved how hilarious they’re to each other and others and on top of that they just want to help the village out and save everyone that they can. I can admit that I hated Luc at first, I thought he was just an ass but the more and more you get to know him, you come to understand his ways and how sweet he really can be. I loved Brigid a lot, I found her strength and determination to find the answers to her lost memories something I could connect with. Even her flaws when he came to that sexy trickster god Luc Knightly. Wow they really had some sexual tension/chemistry in this book.
I didn’t know how this book was going to end, if it was going to be a dud or if it was going to have a twist ending that left me saying WHAT! To my luck it was not, and Paige wrapped everything up into an amazing ending that left me saying AW!
The attention to details in Crutcher writing really helped to bring this little piece of heaven in Ireland, together for me. If you love books about loss, found family, magic and demons you should pick up this book and read it.
I want to thank Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for allowing me the chance to read and review this book for my honest opinion.
kvangundy's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Brigid is a powerful witch who seemingly has it all. She is happy and content with her life, but she is lonely. She wants a child more than anything else. When she goes against everything she knows to have that child it has repercussions that she never could have dreamed of. Falling for the seduction of Luc, the head of the Knightly coven, she has that child but the child soon becomes ill and Brigid will do anything to save her. Finding herself after a traumatic encounter, transported 100 years into the future, Brigid has to figure out why she is there and how to save her daughter. The characters in this book were amazing as well as the world that Crutcher created. It kept me wanting more and kept me engrossed to see what would happen next. This book had a little bit of everything, love, heartache, laughter, ugly monsters, and crazy witches. I really enjoyed everything about this book. Thank you, NetGalley for the eARC. 4 stars.
neighborhood_librarian's review against another edition
3.0
I wanted to like this book more I really did.
It had everything I wanted in a book with the retelling elements and the mythology elements, but something fell flat to me. I don't know if it was the memory loss gaps that threw off the pace or the snippets of the podcasts that threw me off but I struggled with this book. I think that there was just to much trying to go on in one book that would have been better stretched out between a few different stories.
It had everything I wanted in a book with the retelling elements and the mythology elements, but something fell flat to me. I don't know if it was the memory loss gaps that threw off the pace or the snippets of the podcasts that threw me off but I struggled with this book. I think that there was just to much trying to go on in one book that would have been better stretched out between a few different stories.
sreddous's review
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.0
Overall, this book has some cool ideas and potential worldbuilding, but unfortunately, the plot is not organized in a way that brings out those strengths.
I think the risks with a "protagonist lost their memories" story paired with a third-person narrator is that if the protagonist doesn't know what's going on and doesn't know what the stakes and tension we're building up to is, the reader might not either, and that's the feeling I got from this book. I found myself confused pretty often and while sometimes that can be interesting (since we're 'as confused as the main character is'), most of the time I found it frustrating. There's some good action here -- it was cool to fight the soul-eating demons but that was just one quick scene where no bad consequences or lessons learned really happened. I feel like I'm not really "watching Brigid learn skills and hone her magic," I feel like people are just snarking at each other until it's suddenly time for Brigid to remember something, which was pretty hard to get into the flow of as a plot. I feel like a lot of the otherwise-cool powers and lore just feel.... randomly-applied.
Knightly is sometimes totally devoted to Brigid, sometimes not, so I found his interactions with Brigid to be annoying and not-emotionally-built-up-to. Dove is an off-screen prop, not a real person. Ophelia and Finola have cute personalities, but I feel like they only helped contribute to the tone-clashing -- we get inserts of description-less, dialogue-only podcast episodes from them in the middle of action scenes, which snapped me out of following the scary action.
This book has some cool ideas overall, but in my opinion it really needs to have its scenes rearranged and maybe should even be told from first-person perspective. As-is, it's not easy to connect with.
I think the risks with a "protagonist lost their memories" story paired with a third-person narrator is that if the protagonist doesn't know what's going on and doesn't know what the stakes and tension we're building up to is, the reader might not either, and that's the feeling I got from this book. I found myself confused pretty often and while sometimes that can be interesting (since we're 'as confused as the main character is'), most of the time I found it frustrating. There's some good action here -- it was cool to fight the soul-eating demons but that was just one quick scene where no bad consequences or lessons learned really happened. I feel like I'm not really "watching Brigid learn skills and hone her magic," I feel like people are just snarking at each other until it's suddenly time for Brigid to remember something, which was pretty hard to get into the flow of as a plot. I feel like a lot of the otherwise-cool powers and lore just feel.... randomly-applied.
Knightly is sometimes totally devoted to Brigid, sometimes not, so I found his interactions with Brigid to be annoying and not-emotionally-built-up-to. Dove is an off-screen prop, not a real person. Ophelia and Finola have cute personalities, but I feel like they only helped contribute to the tone-clashing -- we get inserts of description-less, dialogue-only podcast episodes from them in the middle of action scenes, which snapped me out of following the scary action.
This book has some cool ideas overall, but in my opinion it really needs to have its scenes rearranged and maybe should even be told from first-person perspective. As-is, it's not easy to connect with.
cocopebbles's review
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
mikaylamcm's review
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
knittingwild's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
nukie19's review against another edition
2.0
I wanted to get into this, but it was just slow and repetitive. I enjoy a good fantasy and love books about magic, but this didn’t pull me into the story and I even thought about DNFing it a few times. The modern characters of Finola and Ophelia were great, but they just couldn’t carry the story alone.
Thanks to the publisher for providing an ARC through Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.
Thanks to the publisher for providing an ARC through Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.
rilynn's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75