Netgalley ARC Review

Selene is a witch who loses her memories every time she uses her magic. It’s been her dream to join the Henbane Coven, a sort of magical sorority/college for witches but in order to be accepted she needs to go in a magical quest and she needs a familiar. When she decides to go to South America, her plane is nearly downed by a mysterious magical force that is calling to her and she ends up waking up a powerful sorcerer who she may have cursed in a past life but she can’t remember.

I really liked this world. Witches, Werewolves and Magic exist alongside humans and Witches have their own schools.

Selene is an unreliable narrator due to her constantly losing her memories every time she uses magic. Memnon is a 2000 year old sorcerer and Selene’s past life husband. He insists she cursed them both and he wants revenge but he also loves her.

The spice level is a 3.5 with lots of edging but no actual sex.

Memnon is very much a villain much like Montes in Thalassa’s The Queen of All That Dies series who loves the heroine but isn’t above betraying her or destroying her world to get what he wants from her.

The ending has a major cliffhanger and I’m already dying for book two. I hope Selene makes Memnon grovel.

I am going to be completely honest and say that as a mood reader as well as someone who often struggles to get into more difficult fantasy, this was probably not the book for me. The premise seemed incredibly interesting, and I had not heard of this author before but wanted to give this book a try. I was unaware of some of the other books this author had written, but upon looking into them found that many of those who have very similar taste in books to my own did not enjoy those. I feel that I honestly just was not the right audience for this book, and hope it finds its correct audience in the future.