This book, was so unbelievably confusing, I had absolutely no clue what was going on the whole time. Not to mention the entire thing felt like it was drawn out way too much, like 200 pages of them just talking about Morgan/some prophecy. Not very entertaining.

At the beginning it starts with Gramz and the mcs’ family psychically abusing her to the point of multiple deadly injuries. The beginning is her running from her brother whose chasing her with a knife, but with the later descriptions of him I realised he was younger than 7 so I could not take any of that seriously, the fact that a literal child was doing this to her.

Then there’s the whole thing with her sister, the book doesn’t really go into much detail about their relationship but you can tell they were close before the whole gramz thing, which again, I did not get at all. Genuinely had no idea what any of that meant.

There’s clearly a lot of hints of Layla and Jos having feelings for each other but I didn’t care for either of them enough to want them to be together.

The ending was so unbelievably rushed, while everything else felt so slow paced. It was like they were trying to make it as long as possible but at the end they didn’t care anymore. Also it was absolutely not how it should’ve ended, especially since there was a PLANNED part 2.

When Jos was in the house she had to use a lamp to see everything since she wasn’t used to the dark or whatever but, when she got outside she wasn’t used to the light either and had to wear sunglasses? Even when it was night. Confused me a little.

Finally I want to know how the fuck the worms were biting her in that one scene WORMS DON’T HAVE TEETH!! And also the scene with the rat that just jumped onto her and straight up bit her, like?? Rabies?? Then it just ran away never to be mentioned again?

So overall, I do not recommend this, complete and utter waste of my time.

Thank you NetGalley for letting me read this!

This was a really good premise. Enjoyed the read. I would be keen to see what else the author puts out there.

I think in some places the writing is too detailed and long about character physical movements and settings and internal monologue and doesn’t push the plot along or offer much insight.


ARC from the publisher