I really enjoyed this book, I found myself falling into the universe and being fully emerged into the story. I’m looking forward to more of Isabel’s work!

This book is the definition of a slow burn, enemies to lover romance! It's moody, and Teddy and Aurelia truly yearned for each other. While it took me about 32% to get fully into the book, I was loving the dark academic and magical vibes. It truly fit the colder weather that I'm experiencing in late October and made me feel really cozy. Who doesn't love a good witchcraft and magical story, with some angsty love? Even though it wasn't my favourite book ever, I still enjoyed it and would recommend to anyone that resonated with what I mentioned above!

One of my fabourite books I've ever read and It was so fun getting to re-experience a re-edited verison!

3 stars!

This had me in the first half not gonna lie. It started out so well, with the first two parts being slow on the action but filled with very beautiful writing, well-rounded characters, and a reaaaaally good slow burn romance (and I also really liked that there was no insta-love, and this did read as enemies to friend to lovers, like these two HATED each other for the the first 25% of the book and I liked that!).

However, when part three began is where things went downwards for me. There's this big build up to this confrontation with the antagonist but it's so poorly explained that I had no idea what was going on. Agajanian needs to more on explaining her more "actiony" scenes because it was so confusing to understand their surroundings, what they were doing, and what was transpiring. After that, the story seems to drag on a little too much for my liking, with conversations between our two main characters often repeating themselves.

Additionally, I would have really enjoyed more insight into the magic system in this world and how witches... work.

Other than that, I don't know if I'll pick up the sequel.

Thank you NetGalley and Pan Macmillan for an arc in exchange for my honest review!