Jerry Cooke
4.25⭐️ - A fantastic fantasy tale of shadow magic and competing dark factions!
Seraphine has grown up as the daughter of a Shade smuggler, always adjacent to the underworld of the City of Fantome, but kept separate from it. Her quiet life is turned to ash when she returns home to find that her mother has been killed by the dangerous Order of the Daggers, the shade consuming guild of assassins. With the shadowy figures pursuing her, she seeks sanctuary in the only place that can protect her - the equally shadowy thieves of the Order of Cloaks. The Daggers are more persistent than she could have imagined though and coming into direct conflict with with the silver-eyed assassin Ransom, secrets of her past are forced into the light.
This is a wonderful world that Doyle has written, with a fascinating system of plant based magic and divinity. Seraphine and Ransom are well paired and have the most authentic feeling enemies to lovers vibe - genuine hatred and desire to kill, threaded with an intense attraction. The larger political landscape and the shadowy conflict between the two orders makes for great tension and there is an engaging cast of characters on both sides of the shadow divide.
4.25⭐️ - A fantastic fantasy tale of shadow magic and competing dark factions!
Seraphine has grown up as the daughter of a Shade smuggler, always adjacent to the underworld of the City of Fantome, but kept separate from it. Her quiet life is turned to ash when she returns home to find that her mother has been killed by the dangerous Order of the Daggers, the shade consuming guild of assassins. With the shadowy figures pursuing her, she seeks sanctuary in the only place that can protect her - the equally shadowy thieves of the Order of Cloaks. The Daggers are more persistent than she could have imagined though and coming into direct conflict with with the silver-eyed assassin Ransom, secrets of her past are forced into the light.
This is a wonderful world that Doyle has written, with a fascinating system of plant based magic and divinity. Seraphine and Ransom are well paired and have the most authentic feeling enemies to lovers vibe - genuine hatred and desire to kill, threaded with an intense attraction. The larger political landscape and the shadowy conflict between the two orders makes for great tension and there is an engaging cast of characters on both sides of the shadow divide.