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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
This book was a little slow to start but definitely kept wanting to read! Can’t wait to start the next book in the series.
3.5 STARS
"Lock the door. Let the good times roll."
I'm a sucker for UF/PNR set in NOLA, regardless of how many of them I've read in the past. Since the ending of Chicagoland, I wanted to dive into Neill's newest series. The beginning was somewhat overwhelming with the world building, but I liked Claire and the potential storylines. I found the relationship between Liam and Claire to be a little lackluster, which is odd considering the intense chemistry Neill developed in Chicagoland. I look forward to the next installment and feel optimistic the series will only improve.
"Lock the door. Let the good times roll."
I'm a sucker for UF/PNR set in NOLA, regardless of how many of them I've read in the past. Since the ending of Chicagoland, I wanted to dive into Neill's newest series. The beginning was somewhat overwhelming with the world building, but I liked Claire and the potential storylines. I found the relationship between Liam and Claire to be a little lackluster, which is odd considering the intense chemistry Neill developed in Chicagoland. I look forward to the next installment and feel optimistic the series will only improve.
This book started slowly - so much so that if I wasn't a big fan of Chloe Neill's The Chicagoland Vampires, I might have given up on it. I'm glad I didn't, however. The characters, after the first seventy pages or so, became engaging and exciting. There did seem to be some repetition of personalities/flaws/speech patterns from The Chicagoland series though, which limited my enjoyment of the novel a tad. The plot was interesting, and I loved the New Orleans setting. Her introduction of the various Paranormals was a source of great interest to me also - her portrayal of different species, some of which aren't explored in a lot of mainstream fiction, kept me on the edge of my seat and excited for the turn of every page. The dynamic between Claire/Liam/Gavin was entertaining, and I liked the twist at the end with Nix. I'd convinced myself - until her aunt and mother became the next victims - that Tadji might be the traitor, what with all her interviews and her intense dislike of magic. And magic - this novel handled the topic in a unique and dark way. That having too much turns you into a wraith - a zombie, basically. That upped the stakes and made things exciting, although part of me hopes they discover a cure in the next book. And I really want another love interest introduced for Claire, because I think that'd add a whole lot more heat/passion/jealous Alpha male moments to the series as a whole. And it'd remind Liam that, hey, he can be self-sacrificing all he wants, but Claire's not going to hold out forever. And Gunnar! Please give him a lover, Miss Neill, toot sweet. He's so adorable. And Malachi - swoon. I've read books with angels in them before, but Malachi had something...special. He'd better be in the next book - maybe as the other love interest?
adventurous
funny
I saw this title on Netgalley and thought it sounded interesting. So interesting that I requested it even though I was planning not to request any more books from there for a while.
But I was super happy that I did. I really enjoyed this book. It is a great book and a great start to a new series. Great interdiction to the world and characters.
The first chapter seemed pretty busy, a little overload of information. Most of the back-story was explained in the first chapter, I was a little worried that the whole book would be that busy but it was not. Well it was busy and a lot of things happen but not a overload if information.
You can find my full review here:
http://snoopydoosbookreviews.com/the-veil-devils-isle-1-by-chloe-neill/
But I was super happy that I did. I really enjoyed this book. It is a great book and a great start to a new series. Great interdiction to the world and characters.
The first chapter seemed pretty busy, a little overload of information. Most of the back-story was explained in the first chapter, I was a little worried that the whole book would be that busy but it was not. Well it was busy and a lot of things happen but not a overload if information.
You can find my full review here:
http://snoopydoosbookreviews.com/the-veil-devils-isle-1-by-chloe-neill/
First in the Devil's Isle urban fantasy series and revolving around Claire Connolly, a Sensitive in New Orleans.
My Take
It's no Chicagoland Vampires. In fact, there are no vampires at all. I had been expecting it to be similar, but in fact, it's more like Suzanne Johnson's Sentinels of New Orleans in that there is a Beyond and paranormal types who have come to the city.
That's where the similarity ends, for this is no benign invasion. Rather it's a rogue group (a really big one!) that wants license to horrify and destroy humans. It's resulted in a horror of magic and a concentration camp imprisoning magic users. Magic users who include Sensitive humans. It doesn't matter that these Sensitives have never done anything wrong, they may. Oh yeah, and magic and electricity don't mix. Sound anything like Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels series?
What's worse is that Containment knows there are ways to manage the problem and chooses to ignore it. I suspect they prefer the power and money of controlling all of Louisiana. Nor are they the only ones.
The Veil revolves around Claire, and it's her fears that introduce us to the problem on a personal level as well as the more general one. She has a small circle of close friends with a larger circle of people for whom she cares.
Naturally, there are rogue elements on both sides of the law — you know which ones I prefer, lol. Yep, those hardy, stalwart rebels trying to prevent a massive betrayal. There is a good lesson in here, reminding us that there is good and bad in every group of beings. That it's too easy to demonize a group making it easier to kill them all. It's what we're doing today to Muslims, what we've done and still do to blacks and anyone else who threatens the insecure among us. Sure, we all want to be able to blame someone and pinning our "hopes" on a group makes it so much easier.
Romance-wise. Not there. I think Neill is trying to create one, that or she's playing it very subtle and will develop it over the stories to come. Claire's stance on protecting her Quarter is nice, very inspiring, but Neill misses on this one as well. It's yet more tell without the show that would pull the reader in. And what's with native New Orleanians not knowing basic French? Gunnar is learning to say bonjour? Claire needs a translation of allons? Gimme a break.
The ending is satisfying as it does solve one particular problem even as it introduces future issues. Neill, unfortunately, doesn't create that sense of NEED, that desperate hope that she'll quickly churn out the next so I can find out what does happen next.
Still, it is a story that pulls you in, and I am looking forward to the next in the series.
The Story
Magic and the Sensitives who absorb it, are under siege, threatened with imprisonment for what they may become, and Claire Connolly is terrified of Containment discovering what she has become.
The Characters
Claire Bridget Connolly owns and operate the Royal Mercantile, an antique shop that has been in her family ever since her great-grandfather, Michael Connolly, started it up, and a fixture in the French Quarter for the past 100 years. Antiques may not be the hot ticket they used to be, but the MREs and other basic supplies Claire also stocks do bring the coin in. Her dad, Mark Connolly, died as a result of friendly fire.
Antoine Lafayette Gunnar Landreau is one of Claire's best friends along with Tadji. Gunnar is the Devil's Isle commandant's senior civilian advisor. His late Aunt Reenie had adored War Night. Emme is Gunnar's younger sister. Zach is a younger brother. Their father is Dr. Cantrell Landreau and their mother is Stella. Campbell is Gunnar's cousin and is married to Sloane.
Tadji Dupre comes from a family of voodoo practitioners, and she fled them, their magic. Now she's a graduate student (and a terrible cook) studying the evolution of language, how the war is causing a change. Phaedra and Zana Dupre are her family and Sensitives, mother and aunt respectively.
Liam Quinn, a Cajun, is a bounty hunter from an old and respected Creole family. He's particularly motivated to go after wraiths because they killed his little sister, Gracie, seven months ago. He lives in Devil's Isle, actually, he never left as it's where his family lived, and he wants to protect his grandmother, Eleanor Arsenault. She's only blind in one sense. Foster is his grandmother's dog. Victoria and Maria are Eleanor's nurses. Gavin is his brother, a tracker who is conflictedly in love with Nix. His mother was Juliet Aresenault, the eldest, who hooked up with the wrong guy, Buddy Quinn, a jazz-playin', hard-drinkin' Cajun.
Containment is…
…the military unit that managed the war and now tasked with guarding the Paranormals. Their headquarters in front of Lafayette Square is the Cabildo. They also enforce the MIGECC Act (the Magic Act), which is the Measure for the Illegality of Glamour and Enchantment in Conflict Communities, a law passed by Congress banning magic. Agents include Phelps, Thomas, and Jack Broussard, an offensive agent with a grudge. Hawkins is one of the guards on the gate.
Some of the Containment contractors include SecuriCrew and ComTac whose CEO is Richard Rutledge. Trey is Claire's usual delivery guy of supplies from Containment. Ida is his wife. Sandra Guest is a soldier who helped Claire in the past. Lizzie is a Para with medical training who works at the clinic.
The PCC is…
…Paranormal Combat Command and was formed 47 years ago by the government which needed Sensitives to close the Veil and promised them immunity. The same ones who disappeared and formed Delta. Will Burke is with PCC Materiel…and a Sensitive.
The Sensitives are…
…humans who attract magic, but they aren't physically equipped to handle it. The magic causes them to evolve (or devolve). Wraiths are Sensitives who have devolved, becoming mindless beings preying on anyone. Other Sensitives include Marla Salas whose surviving mother is Lorene, and Tom, who was one of the seven.
Devil's Isle is…
…officially the District, in the former Fabourg Marigny, a neighborhood in New Orleans that was destroyed during the war and turned into a prison for Paras. Moses Mech is one of those good Paras and Liam's mechanic inside Devil's Isle. Solomon is your friendly neighborhood crime lord who likes people and Paras owing him. Some of the Para types are Seelie, a peskie which is a small flying Para that likes to bite, a Nephele which is a cloud nymph, Valkyries, and angels. Nix is a dryad living in hiding.
The Consularis are…
…the good Paras who have ruled the Beyond and want to stay there.
Those trapped on this side of the Veil include Darby Craig, a biologist formerly with PCC Research. Malachai (he has wings!) is a general. The Court are the bad who want to overthrow the Consularis — or take over our world.
Mrs. Proctor is one of Claire's regulars. A cheeky old lady, lol. She thinks that seventy-eight-year-old Clark from the ice house is a boy! Mrs. Rosenberg is another customer. Rainier Beaulieu had been a cheating boyfriend of Claire's. Dolores Johnson is one of the women Tadji interviews for her thesis.
War Night is a holiday that celebrates the end of the war. The Zone encompasses Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, and the eastern half of Texas. The Vanguard were the New Orleanians who'd served in the war and organized the first War Night parade. Tony Mercier is the Big Chief of the Mardi Gras Indians, the feathered performers. A tête dure is a hardhead. Magic has "salted" the soil of the Zone, its power causing a chemical reaction in the earth.
The Beyond is on the other side of the Veil, a barrier that prevents either world from mixing. The government knew about it 47 years ago. Paranormals (Paras) are supernatural beings who live in the Beyond.
The Cover and Title
The cover is blues and browns. The stormy dark blues of a building storm and a collage of the tilted browns of an old brick building and the ruined arch at Talisheek form the background. Claire herself is standing in profile with her head turned to us, her long red hair flowing down her back and front, and wearing a browner version of the grays that New Orleans has adopted. A pale blue scroll wraps itself around the white title while the author's name is in a deep orange.
The title is all about the barrier keeping Paras on their side with humans on the other. It's The Veil that is weakening again.
My Take
It's no Chicagoland Vampires. In fact, there are no vampires at all. I had been expecting it to be similar, but in fact, it's more like Suzanne Johnson's Sentinels of New Orleans in that there is a Beyond and paranormal types who have come to the city.
That's where the similarity ends, for this is no benign invasion. Rather it's a rogue group (a really big one!) that wants license to horrify and destroy humans. It's resulted in a horror of magic and a concentration camp imprisoning magic users. Magic users who include Sensitive humans. It doesn't matter that these Sensitives have never done anything wrong, they may. Oh yeah, and magic and electricity don't mix. Sound anything like Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels series?
What's worse is that Containment knows there are ways to manage the problem and chooses to ignore it. I suspect they prefer the power and money of controlling all of Louisiana. Nor are they the only ones.
The Veil revolves around Claire, and it's her fears that introduce us to the problem on a personal level as well as the more general one. She has a small circle of close friends with a larger circle of people for whom she cares.
Naturally, there are rogue elements on both sides of the law — you know which ones I prefer, lol. Yep, those hardy, stalwart rebels trying to prevent a massive betrayal. There is a good lesson in here, reminding us that there is good and bad in every group of beings. That it's too easy to demonize a group making it easier to kill them all. It's what we're doing today to Muslims, what we've done and still do to blacks and anyone else who threatens the insecure among us. Sure, we all want to be able to blame someone and pinning our "hopes" on a group makes it so much easier.
Romance-wise. Not there. I think Neill is trying to create one, that or she's playing it very subtle and will develop it over the stories to come. Claire's stance on protecting her Quarter is nice, very inspiring, but Neill misses on this one as well. It's yet more tell without the show that would pull the reader in. And what's with native New Orleanians not knowing basic French? Gunnar is learning to say bonjour? Claire needs a translation of allons? Gimme a break.
The ending is satisfying as it does solve one particular problem even as it introduces future issues. Neill, unfortunately, doesn't create that sense of NEED, that desperate hope that she'll quickly churn out the next so I can find out what does happen next.
Still, it is a story that pulls you in, and I am looking forward to the next in the series.
"Laissez les bon temps rouler."
The Story
Magic and the Sensitives who absorb it, are under siege, threatened with imprisonment for what they may become, and Claire Connolly is terrified of Containment discovering what she has become.
The Characters
Claire Bridget Connolly owns and operate the Royal Mercantile, an antique shop that has been in her family ever since her great-grandfather, Michael Connolly, started it up, and a fixture in the French Quarter for the past 100 years. Antiques may not be the hot ticket they used to be, but the MREs and other basic supplies Claire also stocks do bring the coin in. Her dad, Mark Connolly, died as a result of friendly fire.
Antoine Lafayette Gunnar Landreau is one of Claire's best friends along with Tadji. Gunnar is the Devil's Isle commandant's senior civilian advisor. His late Aunt Reenie had adored War Night. Emme is Gunnar's younger sister. Zach is a younger brother. Their father is Dr. Cantrell Landreau and their mother is Stella. Campbell is Gunnar's cousin and is married to Sloane.
Tadji Dupre comes from a family of voodoo practitioners, and she fled them, their magic. Now she's a graduate student (and a terrible cook) studying the evolution of language, how the war is causing a change. Phaedra and Zana Dupre are her family and Sensitives, mother and aunt respectively.
Liam Quinn, a Cajun, is a bounty hunter from an old and respected Creole family. He's particularly motivated to go after wraiths because they killed his little sister, Gracie, seven months ago. He lives in Devil's Isle, actually, he never left as it's where his family lived, and he wants to protect his grandmother, Eleanor Arsenault. She's only blind in one sense. Foster is his grandmother's dog. Victoria and Maria are Eleanor's nurses. Gavin is his brother, a tracker who is conflictedly in love with Nix. His mother was Juliet Aresenault, the eldest, who hooked up with the wrong guy, Buddy Quinn, a jazz-playin', hard-drinkin' Cajun.
Containment is…
…the military unit that managed the war and now tasked with guarding the Paranormals. Their headquarters in front of Lafayette Square is the Cabildo. They also enforce the MIGECC Act (the Magic Act), which is the Measure for the Illegality of Glamour and Enchantment in Conflict Communities, a law passed by Congress banning magic. Agents include Phelps, Thomas, and Jack Broussard, an offensive agent with a grudge. Hawkins is one of the guards on the gate.
Some of the Containment contractors include SecuriCrew and ComTac whose CEO is Richard Rutledge. Trey is Claire's usual delivery guy of supplies from Containment. Ida is his wife. Sandra Guest is a soldier who helped Claire in the past. Lizzie is a Para with medical training who works at the clinic.
The PCC is…
…Paranormal Combat Command and was formed 47 years ago by the government which needed Sensitives to close the Veil and promised them immunity. The same ones who disappeared and formed Delta. Will Burke is with PCC Materiel…and a Sensitive.
The Sensitives are…
…humans who attract magic, but they aren't physically equipped to handle it. The magic causes them to evolve (or devolve). Wraiths are Sensitives who have devolved, becoming mindless beings preying on anyone. Other Sensitives include Marla Salas whose surviving mother is Lorene, and Tom, who was one of the seven.
Devil's Isle is…
…officially the District, in the former Fabourg Marigny, a neighborhood in New Orleans that was destroyed during the war and turned into a prison for Paras. Moses Mech is one of those good Paras and Liam's mechanic inside Devil's Isle. Solomon is your friendly neighborhood crime lord who likes people and Paras owing him. Some of the Para types are Seelie, a peskie which is a small flying Para that likes to bite, a Nephele which is a cloud nymph, Valkyries, and angels. Nix is a dryad living in hiding.
The Consularis are…
…the good Paras who have ruled the Beyond and want to stay there.
Those trapped on this side of the Veil include Darby Craig, a biologist formerly with PCC Research. Malachai (he has wings!) is a general. The Court are the bad who want to overthrow the Consularis — or take over our world.
Mrs. Proctor is one of Claire's regulars. A cheeky old lady, lol. She thinks that seventy-eight-year-old Clark from the ice house is a boy! Mrs. Rosenberg is another customer. Rainier Beaulieu had been a cheating boyfriend of Claire's. Dolores Johnson is one of the women Tadji interviews for her thesis.
War Night is a holiday that celebrates the end of the war. The Zone encompasses Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, and the eastern half of Texas. The Vanguard were the New Orleanians who'd served in the war and organized the first War Night parade. Tony Mercier is the Big Chief of the Mardi Gras Indians, the feathered performers. A tête dure is a hardhead. Magic has "salted" the soil of the Zone, its power causing a chemical reaction in the earth.
The Beyond is on the other side of the Veil, a barrier that prevents either world from mixing. The government knew about it 47 years ago. Paranormals (Paras) are supernatural beings who live in the Beyond.
The Cover and Title
The cover is blues and browns. The stormy dark blues of a building storm and a collage of the tilted browns of an old brick building and the ruined arch at Talisheek form the background. Claire herself is standing in profile with her head turned to us, her long red hair flowing down her back and front, and wearing a browner version of the grays that New Orleans has adopted. A pale blue scroll wraps itself around the white title while the author's name is in a deep orange.
The title is all about the barrier keeping Paras on their side with humans on the other. It's The Veil that is weakening again.
3.5
New Orleans after a great battle between our world and a magical realm. New Orleans was ground zero and is now littered with the ugly residue from an unfinished battle. It is ruled by a kind of Marshal Law with a prison Devil’s Isle, for magical beings in the middle. Corruption and greed never far from the heart of man play dangerous games of life, death and possibly the end of humanity. A small group of magical and human residents stand and fight for what is left of this world. Two very different people are at the center of this movement without even knowing it.
Claire is a young woman left alone with her memories and general store filled with ghosts of past generations. She has had moments of magic, unwanted and untrained that if used or discovered would send her to Devils Isle. She is a smart mechanically gifted woman, who only wants to maintain her family’s heritage and honor their memory. She doesn’t want the future predicted by her magical status. Her world starts to unravel when a hunk of man walks into her world.
Liam, scared inside and out, a bounty hunter has one goal, centered and focused he works all avenues to reach that goal. He circulates the city, networks and fights for his right to live and search for answers. Answers to his sisters death, the increased attacks and the evolution happening. He is the thunder to Claire’s lightening and together they make one wreck of a storm.
There was a plethora of interesting side characters with magical abilities just lightly touched on books and a few friends. The villains were double sided evilness with a side of stinky. One guy, oh boy, I wanted to rip him into pieces when he searched and destroyed. He had way to little of a part. I think this first book built a strong future for the series with a large cast to pull from.
I thought the beginning was very slow, it was difficult to stay focused with the lack of action. It was a slow easy build with pieces of the puzzle slowly falling into place. I was frustrated and had to restart it several times when I just drifted from the story into a day dream. I am not a fan of a slow daily grind type of story and that was how it started. As I got move into the book I grew more interested, started to see a picture of possibilities. Oh there could be some serious fun with the bits she threw in. Here was part of the problem she threw out the interesting bits but centered 95% on one matter. She had these interesting “paras” magical ones that just kind of came out of the woods with little explanation. It was a wonderful moment but baffling. The history was was too brief, the others motivations too brief, the betrayals to obvious. I wanted some of the magical bits to bite me where it would hurt and I only got a little nibble and no love bites. Love, no romance, no it is more of an unhealthy teasing and I was cheering for any other match. I didn’t love it, wouldn’t re-read it, but I would read book 2 in hope that this was just a case of first book in a series meh.
New Orleans after a great battle between our world and a magical realm. New Orleans was ground zero and is now littered with the ugly residue from an unfinished battle. It is ruled by a kind of Marshal Law with a prison Devil’s Isle, for magical beings in the middle. Corruption and greed never far from the heart of man play dangerous games of life, death and possibly the end of humanity. A small group of magical and human residents stand and fight for what is left of this world. Two very different people are at the center of this movement without even knowing it.
Claire is a young woman left alone with her memories and general store filled with ghosts of past generations. She has had moments of magic, unwanted and untrained that if used or discovered would send her to Devils Isle. She is a smart mechanically gifted woman, who only wants to maintain her family’s heritage and honor their memory. She doesn’t want the future predicted by her magical status. Her world starts to unravel when a hunk of man walks into her world.
Liam, scared inside and out, a bounty hunter has one goal, centered and focused he works all avenues to reach that goal. He circulates the city, networks and fights for his right to live and search for answers. Answers to his sisters death, the increased attacks and the evolution happening. He is the thunder to Claire’s lightening and together they make one wreck of a storm.
There was a plethora of interesting side characters with magical abilities just lightly touched on books and a few friends. The villains were double sided evilness with a side of stinky. One guy, oh boy, I wanted to rip him into pieces when he searched and destroyed. He had way to little of a part. I think this first book built a strong future for the series with a large cast to pull from.
I thought the beginning was very slow, it was difficult to stay focused with the lack of action. It was a slow easy build with pieces of the puzzle slowly falling into place. I was frustrated and had to restart it several times when I just drifted from the story into a day dream. I am not a fan of a slow daily grind type of story and that was how it started. As I got move into the book I grew more interested, started to see a picture of possibilities. Oh there could be some serious fun with the bits she threw in. Here was part of the problem she threw out the interesting bits but centered 95% on one matter. She had these interesting “paras” magical ones that just kind of came out of the woods with little explanation. It was a wonderful moment but baffling. The history was was too brief, the others motivations too brief, the betrayals to obvious. I wanted some of the magical bits to bite me where it would hurt and I only got a little nibble and no love bites. Love, no romance, no it is more of an unhealthy teasing and I was cheering for any other match. I didn’t love it, wouldn’t re-read it, but I would read book 2 in hope that this was just a case of first book in a series meh.
There were parts of this book that seemed slow going and parts that were fast paced. It was a great read and had me captivated. We learn more about Claire's family, about the world's magic, and glimpse creatures and beings of our own mythology. I really look forward to continuing the series.
The Veil is the first book by Chloe Neill that I have read, so although the synopsis definitely captured my attention, I went into this book with no expectations at all. When I began reading The Veil I fell into this world easily, it's a perfect mix of 'normal' and 'paranormal' as these two try to live side by side.
Claire lives and works in her family shop, looking after it all after the death of her father. She has a few close friends Tadji and Gunner, who look out for each other and thier neighbours, but what they don't know is that Claire is a sensitive. After the Veil was torn apart and then sealed, some magic remained, those who are 'infected' are move to Devil's Isle to live in a contained area, Claire must keep her secret to herself or find herself in the company of creatures who would gladly get rid of her. As The Veil progresses we see Claire in some life or death situations that will force her to use her ability, and put herself in danger.
The Veil was a book I really enjoyed. I found it easy to relate to the characters and liked reading how they are surviving in this new world. They have a nice community where everyone bands together to survive, raising crops, swapping food etc. The friendships that Claire has are small but strong, and when it really hits the fan her friends are there to stand by her side.
The Veil is a book full of magic, and culture, of survival, and hope. I found myself enjoying this book more than I expected and really getting lost within the pages. There were moments in the book that I didn't expect to happen, and some parts had me worried over what was going to happen to Claire or other characters placed in a bad situation.
Final Verdict
The Veil was a book that surprised me with how easily I fell into this new world, I loved everything about this book and I can't wait to dive into the next book.
Claire lives and works in her family shop, looking after it all after the death of her father. She has a few close friends Tadji and Gunner, who look out for each other and thier neighbours, but what they don't know is that Claire is a sensitive. After the Veil was torn apart and then sealed, some magic remained, those who are 'infected' are move to Devil's Isle to live in a contained area, Claire must keep her secret to herself or find herself in the company of creatures who would gladly get rid of her. As The Veil progresses we see Claire in some life or death situations that will force her to use her ability, and put herself in danger.
The Veil was a book I really enjoyed. I found it easy to relate to the characters and liked reading how they are surviving in this new world. They have a nice community where everyone bands together to survive, raising crops, swapping food etc. The friendships that Claire has are small but strong, and when it really hits the fan her friends are there to stand by her side.
The Veil is a book full of magic, and culture, of survival, and hope. I found myself enjoying this book more than I expected and really getting lost within the pages. There were moments in the book that I didn't expect to happen, and some parts had me worried over what was going to happen to Claire or other characters placed in a bad situation.
Final Verdict
The Veil was a book that surprised me with how easily I fell into this new world, I loved everything about this book and I can't wait to dive into the next book.