by Patrice Caldwell
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Pub Date: April 1, 2025
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Vampires
Format: ARC
Source: Publisher
Book Links: Goodreads Amazon Bookshop
The dark and thrillingly romantic debut vampire fantasy that questions
what it truly means to sacrifice for love.
You have no idea what I’ve done for love. Just as you have no idea what you
may one day do.
Once long ago, a girl named Favre sacrificed her wings for love. Thana, the
young goddess she so willingly gave them up for, sacrificed that same love for
power. But everything has a cost.
Favre never got over the loss of her wings. And Thana’s choices led to a life
of eternal night, and later, their destruction. Favre has bided her time ever
since, waiting for the chance to resurrect the girl she loves who turned her
into the creature she hates.
Now, a thousand years later, Leyla, the crown princess of the malichora—an
ancient race that survives on human blood —must travel to the Island of the
Dead when her best friend is captured during an attack on her nation’s capital.
Along with Najja, a fierce, beautiful seer, and the last person she expected to
help her, Leyla forges down a dangerous path, intent on saving her friend. But
nothing is as it seems. The closer she gets to her goal, the more she risks
awakening an ancient evil and destroying everything she holds dear.
Set in the aftermath of a war between vampires, humans, and the gods that
created them, Patrice Caldwell’s devastatingly romantic fantasy debut, Where
Shadows Meet, centers the heart-wrenching pain of loss and the struggle of
self-discovery to ask: do we choose our fates, or do our fates choose us?
My Review: DNF.
No, OMG no.
In theory, the book sounded. However, it
didn't turn out that way.
Had to DNF at 25%, it was so bad that it gave me a headache trying to get through it and there was no hope in picking it back up.
A lot of characters. A lot of jumping around between characters and time lines. It was hard to understand, keep up and even be engaged. Things are all over the place. Moments of the past thrown in at the worst times.
The concepts, development, characters, world building, etc. Could have been so much better, but the overall execution of the book was not there.
Will not continue the series.
