oh wowwwwwwwwwwww
dark emotional mysterious tense 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

Writing this KILLER slow burn fantasy deserves an honorable award!! Sara Hashem, u are a star!!! 🌟

“I choose her” absolutely diabolical. 

This is def a fantasy book that needs to be on EVERYONES radar!! 

The tension, yearning, and enemies to lovers was so loud in the room that I was clawing up my walls. This is art 🙂‍↕️

I need book 2 in my hands ASAP!!! 


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I wish someone would have told me there were trials in this book. I am so beyond sick of reading about those. But the story was interesting otherwise. I liked the slow burn romance between Essiya and Arin.

A couple things were a little confusing. Like how she could get stabbed in the heart and use her magic to heal and yet no one questioned how she was up n ready for the next trial 2 days later. Like…. Wouldn’t that be obvious? lol.
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced
fast-paced

i need her crash out and his yearning to be phenomenal in book two
adventurous dark mysterious tense
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

“After a lifetime of running, he was my homecoming.” 

an egyptian inspired fantasy you say? i. loved. it. phenomenal. beautifully written. wow. this being a debut is crazy!!!!! the story telling was so descriptive and the plot was perfect. Arin and Essiya bringing back TRUE enemies to lovers. 

i can already tell book two is about to be a rollercoaster of emotions😭
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

Really enjoyed the story but found the writing hard to follow at times. Not the new vocabulary, but how things were described and the flow. I’m looking forward to book 2 though!

Started book 2, only one chapter in and the writing is so much smoother.