story craft

Genre: YA Fantasy

Format: Hardcover

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Favorite quote: “Love isn’t about accepting the pieces we don’t like. It’s about accepting the complete and beautiful whole.”

Review:

So, I confess. I for sure forgot to take notes on this book because, well, I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning reading it. In an attempt to not wake my husband, I tried to limit my movements to turning pages and quietly clicking off my Hooga reading light when I finally couldn’t hold my eyes open any longer.

This book surprised me. By that I mean, the ending made me want to throw the book across the room. Not because I hated it, but because I had to wait until the next book (which I thankfully already had) to know what happened. And my sleep-sticky eyes wouldn’t let me start the book right away. Drat.

But that’s the end of the book, so you’re probably wondering what was so awesome about the beginning and middle of the book. To sum it up? Everything.

In this book, friends become enemies and enemies become friends and it’s all twisted and has Eliyana twisted up inside too. This book isn’t just about a journey across the reflections but a journey to discovering who and how to trust—and that the people who last the journey with you might not be the ones you expect to at the start.

For part of the book, our characters are split and each on their own adventures—Kai, Eliyana and Ebony, and Joshua. Each one in some way feels powerless, but as the book goes on, they grow more confident in who they are and what they need to do.

Kai and Joshua continue to fight against the void as Eliyana wonders why the Verity feels silent inside of her and why people’s Callings are disappearing and why all the thresholds are draining. And of course there’s Ebony, the girl we learned to love to hate in the last book is a surprising delight in this one, but that’s all I’ll say about her for now.

When loyalties are constantly in question and truth and fiction seem to blur, how will El and her friends figure out what’s happening to the Callings and how to fix it before it all just disappears?

My take:

True love bonds us deeper than we can imagine—it ties us to truth, to reality, to sacrifice. True love ins’t just limited to romance but reaches far beyond into the deepest parts of every soul and touches the places we long to be seen and truly known.