Reader’s Notes:
– this is the first in a series (ends in a cliffhanger) & needs to be read in order
– this is told from Io’s point of view
– there are about 41 curse words
– there is a girl who dates girls & a character who goes by they/them
– there are multiple instances of death, violence (gun, knives, knuckles, stranglings), & injuries (towards the end of this book is a depiction of a massacre – multiple dead bodies; blood; killing; etc)
– there are gangs & animal fights (made-up animals/creatures)
Review:
This was a really interesting read that had me at the edge of my seat! So much so, that when I got to the cliffhanger ending I was thinking both ‘yes! there’s more with these characters’ & ‘noooo! finish this please!’. It was really interesting to see that the other-born were people who had powers from the gods in mythology (it sounded like various mythologies – where they lived denoted which they were called by/from; Io being in the Greek mythology area & I believe Edei was originally from the Egyptian one?) and how exactly that worked. I liked that Io was an other-born and that we got to see how she sees things with her powers activated and what she could do with them. I also really liked the mystery that Io and Edei are tasked to solve. It was interesting and thrilling to watch them go step by step through clues to find the culprit. I didn’t see the ending coming and was a little shocked when the culprit was revealed but now I want to know more about why they did it!
Summary:
Io and her sisters are descendants of the Fates and have their powers. Io uses her moira-born abilities to sustain herself as a private investigator and to occasionally cut undesired addictions/bad habits that people have connected to them. But her latest investigation is completely out of her normal zone. She is hired to investigate the odd wraith-like women that have shown up. These once women have a severed fate thread, they should be dead but instead are reeking havoc by killing people in Alante’s underbelly. Her employer – the mob queen – tasks her with finding out who is making and controlling them and why they are killing. And the mob queen wants her to carry out this investigation with her number two, Edei, right there with her. Which is a bit of a problem for Io. Because she shares a rare fate thread with Edei…and she doesn’t know what to do about it…
– this is the first in a series (ends in a cliffhanger) & needs to be read in order
– this is told from Io’s point of view
– there are about 41 curse words
– there is a girl who dates girls & a character who goes by they/them
– there are multiple instances of death, violence (gun, knives, knuckles, stranglings), & injuries (towards the end of this book is a depiction of a massacre – multiple dead bodies; blood; killing; etc)
– there are gangs & animal fights (made-up animals/creatures)
Review:
This was a really interesting read that had me at the edge of my seat! So much so, that when I got to the cliffhanger ending I was thinking both ‘yes! there’s more with these characters’ & ‘noooo! finish this please!’. It was really interesting to see that the other-born were people who had powers from the gods in mythology (it sounded like various mythologies – where they lived denoted which they were called by/from; Io being in the Greek mythology area & I believe Edei was originally from the Egyptian one?) and how exactly that worked. I liked that Io was an other-born and that we got to see how she sees things with her powers activated and what she could do with them. I also really liked the mystery that Io and Edei are tasked to solve. It was interesting and thrilling to watch them go step by step through clues to find the culprit. I didn’t see the ending coming and was a little shocked when the culprit was revealed but now I want to know more about why they did it!
Summary:
Io and her sisters are descendants of the Fates and have their powers. Io uses her moira-born abilities to sustain herself as a private investigator and to occasionally cut undesired addictions/bad habits that people have connected to them. But her latest investigation is completely out of her normal zone. She is hired to investigate the odd wraith-like women that have shown up. These once women have a severed fate thread, they should be dead but instead are reeking havoc by killing people in Alante’s underbelly. Her employer – the mob queen – tasks her with finding out who is making and controlling them and why they are killing. And the mob queen wants her to carry out this investigation with her number two, Edei, right there with her. Which is a bit of a problem for Io. Because she shares a rare fate thread with Edei…and she doesn’t know what to do about it…