TBR & Tangents by Rachel

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and Netgalley for an ARC copy!

This was my first read for Paula Brackston and consider me impressed! The meshing of historical and magic was done well and kept the plot interesting. There is more than one twist that totally caught me off guard which brought up all kinds of emotions (all good of course). My only qualm was that most of the story remained dry with action occurring 85% of the way through in my opinion. It’s not a long novel by page number but it ends up feelings super drawn out.

I loved Hecate from the start and appreciated how she remained uniquely her own for the entirety of the book. There was some good character development however small it was. The secondary characters, though quite a large cast were all a delightful additional to the story (both human and ghost!)

I really liked that there was not a wild cliffhanger at the end, even though this is the first book in a series.