This young adult fantasy was a unique story. I listened to the audiobook and thought the narrator did a great job. My only struggle with the audiobook was that I needed to know what happens next and audio is my slowest modality for finishing a book. I liked the world building quite a bit. I love when there is a new slant to a fantasy world and this one had it. In a world of blossoming technology there once was an island of people called Heart Soothes who could heal with a touch. But their enemies grew afraid of them and called them Bloodcaver. Those people were murdered in an attempt to steal their abilities. Nhika’s family escaped but since her grandmother and parents died she has been the only Heart Soother she knows. After using her forbidden abilities to save one of her sham holistic medicine clients who would have died without her help she is repaid by being hunted by black marker traders who grab her and put her up for auction. Terrified of what would happen, since it is believed eating the heart of one of her people grants the eater the abilities, she is determined to escape. She is purchased by a teenage girl who she finds to be from of one of the richest families in the land. The girl and her family ask for her help healing a man who is in a coma after an accident that killed their father. But this family has secret motivations and the upper class world she’s now exploring is full or secrets, lies, and pitfalls. I didn’t love the ending (or the cliffhanger I am assuming will result in another book) but it was well written and a fun and wild ride.