4.8 🌟
What a truly magnificent story, I was completely swept up by this book! It’s dark academic setting with code breaking, swoon worthy romance (that had me blushing and giggling more times than I can count), banter, self discover and of course dragons!
This book is everything I could possibly want in a fantasy, and some things I didn’t know I needed.
The plot was constantly twisting and turning into places I did not expect. If a little slow throughout the middle, by the end the story more than made up for it with a jaw dropping finale. The side characters are all very well developed but don’t steal the spotlight or overshadow the protagonist (who is awesome by the way), I had so much fun inside of Viv’s head and by the end of the book I did not want to leave. The journey she goes on through the course of the book feels so human the way it is written. Her character arc in particular was so much fun to follow. I can’t say too much without giving away that end of the book, but I will say that she has to make some very interesting and self defining decisions.
All in all this book was really a blast to read, I loved ever second of it and truly hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Thank you so so much to NetGally and HarperCollins children’s books for giving me a chance to read this amazing book ahead of publication.
-Sam
