A review by manu_sea_of_books
The Curse of the Shadow God by Abbey Fox

3.0

My first arc and I couldn’t be happier!
But I wanna preface that I will only be giving my true opinion about it.

We start by knowing Violet and we can immediately see that we are facing a strong, determined and courageous woman. But also a woman who was betrayed and deceived and because of that she’s sad, angry and suspicious of everything and everyone.

“Violet had always found it easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.”

And then we have Gavin, that emanates Golden retriever energy as I like to call it! He’s a sweet, gentleman, kind and reliable type of man which makes it impossible not to fall for him.

“Gavin would always be the voice of reason.”

And this book was all about learning to trust others, learning to lean on others and have faith that there’s still good people in the world. And despite the awful and monstrous things they all saw the thing that really stood out the most for me was the good this book was trying to transmit.

Violet is not a perfect character, she has her flaws, but don’t we all ? And it was interesting to accompany her in this personal journey of hers.

“It was time to be strong and not fall apart, to forgive herself for all her wrongdoings. Because she'd tried her best, and learned so much.”

The benter between these two was immaculate! It really made me laugh and fall in love with them. Gavin, despite being all cute also had a lot of