Anathema (The Eating Woods)

This book is phenomenal, perfect spooky, gothic read.

My copy is missing pages...

"I wouldn’t consider reading books in solitary the worst scenario." Devoured is an understatement. I adore Kerri lake and especially love her gothic writings. This one is a home run, beautiful written in her lamenting voice. The MMC is brilliantly tortured and holds a vicious past, that book 2 will explore in more detail, but his character is brought to life wonderfully here - true morally grey and destroy the world for love. The FMC is...okay, she's got so much potential and I hope she bulks up in the following books as is still coming off a little damsel in distress, but I'm trying to allow that she's learning...a lot of her chapters were inner monologues which is fine but sometimes a little too much - I like to know what my characters are thinking but I don't need to know ALL of what they're thinking. Some wonderful side characters that I hope to see more of in future books too - The world building and unique magic system is typical of Lake and wonderful as always...though at this point in the story it's still early to see how the magic system will play out as it's frankly underused really...patience there I think. I also do admit I don't need every detail of a room described to me or every floor is a castle, but I also love the way Lake uses language, so that's a small issue. I'm not sure if I'd call the romance a slow burn, as the characters don't really engage with each other until 1/2 through the book then once they do it all happens quickly. Typically for a gothic romantasy a lot of the action happens in the last 200 pages...which is fun. The beginning is worth it though and I'm absolutely looking forward to the next books (apparently a trilogy).

Por fin lo encuentro y llegó perfecto

Great copy. Story follows a woman who's been naked with a curse