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✨Urban Fantasy
✨Morally Grey FMC
✨Shifters, Vampires, Merfolk, Warlocks and more
✨Revenge Quest
✨Found Family
✨Banter
✨Greek Gods
✨Forbidden Magic

I received an ALC through NetGalley.

I loved this audio book. It had a lot in it but I feel it was dont right. Urban Fantasy tends to be a mixing pot of everything.
There are shifters, vampires, witches, warlocks, Greek gods, merfolk, and more.

The FMC is amazing. Love her! I am not feeling the love interest in this book. I am hoping it changes to a certain vampire’s nephew. I did like the chemistry between Nemain and Andrei. I just feel he is the one for her.

I loved the world building in this first book. The found family is heavy in here and I love it. The whole group is filled with all different types of characters. Magos is one of my favorite characters. A protector!

The villain Sebastian was written so well! I hated him! It’s sad how so much love turns to revenge over greed for power.

When Nemain is talking to Connor at the end…so much emotion. I felt it. My heart hurt. That scene was beautiful written.

This is the first book so I can appreciate all the build up and world building. I am definitely reading the next one!

The narrator for this one is amazing! I am going to listen to more from this from her catalog. All the voices and emotions the narrator did immersed me deep into the book! I can clearly picture everything.

This series has a lot of great potential, and although I'm only giving a two star rating I did overall enjoy the listen.

The world building left a little something to be desired as there wasn't much in regards to the main place setting, however I did really enjoy the multi-universe aspect. Linking that to the magic system was really intriguing.

The liked seeing the differences of wizard / witch / mermaids / fae etc. This gave it a very whimsical feel and really built on the fantasy element, however we didn't see much depth within those races or their history and political connection to one another - I'd love to hear more about each of them!

I liked our characters, especially the ones outside of our main trio - I felt like they had a lot of personality to them (even if we were meant to dislike them) and it made them really stand out. My favourite being the brothers partner!

I did find myself zoning out a couple of times and honestly didn't feel like I'd missed much when it came back to it.

However as I've said it has a lot of interesting parts, some good foundations that I'd be interested to learn more in a sequel. I just wish I'd had a little more of a punch, something to really draw me in. For that reason, it's a 2/2.5 star read for me.

So after listening to this book I really think the main character is sassy and empowering and awesome! I loved her! I think the issue I had was we jumped right into it and I felt like I was missing some information which made it hard for me to keep up. However, the character descriptions and also the action scenes were amazing!

I really really really wanted to get into this one, and unfortunately I just couldn't. I made it to 50% and I just realized I would not be able to give this one justice. I'm giving it 3 stars because I bet lots of people will love this one. It has everything that I enjoy in romantasys (fae, magic, battles, spice, great characters), but for me I just couldn't focus. I hope to pick up something else by this author because the writing style was great!