![]() ![]() We jump back and forth between Roz and Damian’s perspectives but these early chapters really take the time to introduce the characters. It takes nearly 100 pages for Damian and Roz to even see each other again after so many years apart, but I enjoyed the slow pacing. If you’re looking for something fast paced, this book isn’t it. She wanted the justice her father had deserved. For everyone deemed unimportant in this city. Roz wanted it too, and she wanted it more. The loss of her father has torn apart her family, and she wants nothing more than to seek vengeance against those that killed her father and the institution supporting it.ĭamian wasn’t the only one who wanted justice. Born with late blooming magic, she is a disciple in the Patience guild but disgusted with the circumstances of her privileged position and yearning for change. She only had to remind him that vengeance was sweeter than spirits. His actions are very calculated but he spends too much time worrying over his past and present.īoth had honed their misery into something vicious. It traced cold, malevolent fingers down his spine and hissed garbled nothings in his ear.”ĭamian is a former soldier of the Ombrazia military turned captain of the Palazzo security, dealing with post-war PTSD as he investigates a murderer threatening both the city and his position. ![]() “Death still stalked his every waking moment. Citizens with inherited magic are called disciples and control the wealth and economy while those born without magic are the unfavored, relegated to the fringes of society and struggling to survive. In the midst of war and rebellion, the city is ruled by factions of religious saints and their disciples. ![]() To feel at once important and so incredibly insignificant.”Ī murderer is stalking the streets of Ombrazia. Throw in some fantasy and a bit of romance and you have the recipe for what I think is a great YA debut. I rarely guess the ending correctly but books like this one pull me in immediately and keep me entertained. I’d never make a good detective, but I just love sifting through the clues and piecing together the mystery as the story unfolds. With darkness closing in and time running out, will they be able to save the city from an evil so powerful that it threatens to destroy everything in its path?ĭiscover what’s lurking in the shadows in this dark fantasy debut with a murder-mystery twist, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Kerri Maniscalco.Ĭontent Warning: various types of violence (shooting, poisoning, beheading), graphic descriptions of blood/bodies, death of parents/ friends/ siblings, a parent depicted with memory loss/confusion, PTSD and flashbacks, descriptions of war, prejudice, religious intolerance, hallucinations, paranoia, alcoholism, and mentions of self-harm. As they dive into the underbelly of Ombrazia, the pair will discover something moresinister-and far less holy. With every lead turning into a dead end, Damian and Roz must team up to find the killer, even if it means digging up buried emotions. As the body count climbs, the Palazzo is all too happy to look the other way-that is, untila disciple becomes the newest victim. Now a murderer stalks Ombrazia’s citizens. But three years spent fighting in a never-ending war have left him with deeper scars than he wants to admit… and a fear of confronting the girl he left behind. As the youngest captain in the history of Palazzo security, Damian Venturi is expected to be ruthless and strong, and to serve the saints with unquestioning devotion. In the city of Ombrazia, saints and their disciples rule with terrifying and unjust power, playing favorites while the unfavored struggle to survive.Īfter her father’s murder at the hands of the Ombrazian military, Rossana Lacertosa is willing to do whatever it takes to dismantle the corrupt system-tapping into her powers as a disciple of Patience, joining the rebellion, and facing the boy who broke her heart. ![]()
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