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Mateo spent years believing he suffered from a strange wasting sickness, but he's finally learned the much darker truth. Now he will do whatever it takes to save himself, even if it means betraying Lia, the one girl who's ever made him care about something besides his research. It doesn't help that his father kidnapped the last living member of Lia's family, and Lia is only coming back into Mateo's life to hunt him and his father down for revenge.
Anwei's rage can't be contained after the disaster at the tomb that ended with Knox almost dying. Worse, she learned that the brother she'd been desperate to avenge has been living a life of luxury, raised by the monster of her nightmares. With the power of an ancient, nameless god running in her veins, Anwei vows to end the shapeshifter once and for all.
But the members of her crew each have their own motivations—and their own gods whispering in their ears. As Anwei gets closer to the shapeshifter she's chased for so long, she realizes the gods' plans and her own might diverge. But she will destroy anyone standing in the way of her revenge.
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- ISBN: 9781534466166
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- ISBN: 9781534466166
- File size: 3563 KB
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- English
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- Lexile® Measure: 860
- Text Difficulty: 4-5
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February 1, 2023
Anwei's revenge is closer than ever in this follow-up to 2021's She Who Rides the Storm. Anwei's magic has been changing since the events at Patenga's tomb during which she confronted Tual Montanne and miraculously saved Knox's life. Now, she's hunting for information on Tual's hideout, eager to finish the battle she began. Unfortunately, Knox has begun having the same fainting episodes Mateo suffered from, while Willow, the spirit of Knox's dead sister, has attached herself to Mateo instead of Knox. She's hungry for souls, and as a shape-shifter, Mateo can harvest them for her. This extra voice urging him on does nothing to help his struggle over the tomb's horrible revelation: A shape-shifter is formed when a Basist and a Devoted share a bond, then one kills the other. The sacrifice his adoptive father, Tual, performed to turn Mateo into a shape-shifter was botched, and to fix it he needs to convince Lia to love him--then kill her. If he fails, he will die. Tual thinks he has the perfect bait to lure in Lia in the form of Aria, her sister, but Lia is vengeful and is retaking her broken oaths to restore her diminished powers. The strong opening is squandered when the consequences of the characters' actions are undone by a deus ex machina ending. Additionally, the underdevelopment of established lore and mythology will leave fantasy fans unsatisfied. A serviceable duology closer that sadly does little to expand on the setting's worldbuilding. (Fantasy. 14-18)COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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