Welcome to Litsy!

I understand the issues a lot of people had with this one as it does read quite young. I think it would have been received better if it had just been comped to Cinderella rather than Marissa Meyers Cinder. I did find it quite slow, but I like the promise of the series and the fairy tale aspect, so I will give book 2 a go.

This is not for me, it is very much a YA fantasy and written for a younger audience. It is very cute, but I should know better at this point after DNFing a large number of YA recently. However, I got a beautiful edition from Illumicrate so I had to check it out. DNF

Illumicrate‘s subscription book box for August 2023.

I enjoyed this ARC so much I didn‘t skip this month. 😁 I‘m so glad. It‘s a smaller YA format hardback but lovely with sprayed edges.

My very first Illumicrate box subscription arrived yesterday- the August box! I'm so happy to finally be off the waitlist! 🥹💕📚 I'm over the moon with excitement! This is the book that came with it, and I think I have desperately fallen in love with these page edges! #illumicrate

I didn‘t start out liking Zhara but she grows as a character pretty quick! I loved Han! Team Han!

Zhara spends her days caring for her blind half-sister & Catering to her stepmother who beats them regularly & is trying to marry off her daughter to a horrible man.

The last 1/2 of the book has a maturing Shara joining the Guardians of Dawn, looking for demons.

Zhara & Han‘s story = most interesting!

I look forward to BK 2.

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Loooook at how B-E-A-U-TIFUL this cover is. 😍

#goodreadswinner #goodreadsgiveaway