Amazing narrator

I started reading the book before getting the audiobook, and honestly Nikki Patel does an amazing job of reading. She brings the characters to life

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Slow to get going but a great finish.

Very slow to get going but I am glad I stayed with it. I will listen to the next book in the series.

So many main characters and a little confusing to start with.

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Worth a listen

I really enjoyed the overall story and although I liked some of the viewpoint characters more than others, even the ones I wasn't too keen on grew on me by the end.
I definitely thought the characters and the relationships between them were the strong point of this, and the diffrent family dynamics happening throughout really drew me in.
Risha and Nic were definitely my favorites throughout and Dante and Julian had their moments too.
There were some points of the worldbuilding and timeline which confused me near the beginning, such as the way the characters talk about the sealing and other realms. It's supposed to be 500 years since a big event, but the way it's talked about sometimes makes it sound much more recent which threw me off.
The one major thing which got to me was the way it switched between characters. One sentence we'd be in one characters point of view and the next in another without any clear break between them. This definitely made me enjoy it a little less as I had to think about it to work out what had happened and reorientate from whose point of view things were happening from. I don't know if the book was written that way - which I really hope not - or if its a performance/ editing thing. It is making me consider if I get the sequel as an audioboook or just find the physical books because I did find it frustrating to listen to when it did this. Luckily it only seemed to be a thing I noticed more near the end.
Otherwise it was great and I'm really enjoying a lot of books written by Tara Sim. I will be getting the sequel in one way or another.

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Interesting story that comes together well

I have to admit, I did struggle to get into this story at first, and I wondered if it would be for me. I'm glad I stuck with it though as by the third chapter I was listening to it every night, not wanting to stop at the end of the chapter to go to sleep.
I enjoyed the development of the characters, the highs and the lows, seeing how they coped with having their views challenged and changed.
I did find the pacing of the narration a bit rushed at times though, and found it difficult to work out when there were "scene changes" which threw me off a bit, though I came to expect it about half way through the book so didn't jar me quite so much.

Am looking forward to the next book!

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