erinremen 's review for:

River of Shadows by Karina Halle
5.0

A brand new series that thrust us into a dark, magical world steeped in Finish folklore! It's exciting, full of delicious darkness and the lore is so interesting and the world the author as painted is a new favorite that I just want to devour. Hannah might have been born in Finland but she spent most of her life in California with her mother, forever missing her beloved father and never feelig like she truly fits in or comfortable in her own skin. When she finds out her father had died she rushes back to Finland, devasted. However as soon as she lands things are weird, like crazy weird. That strangeness gets worse when a strange man claims her father might still be alive and she could save him. She has no idea what she is getting herself into, how it will change her and the sacrifices she will make for the father the loves above all else. And Death, hello, freaking Death is one hot piece of a contradiction. The things he makes her feel are at odds with her desire to flee at the first opportunity. It's so freaking awesome, and hot! I'm heading straight into the next one!