Moving from Paris to London, the story highlights major landmarks that help ground readers in the setting. Her transformation is the central theme of the story: Anouk feels “tired of living in a world where girls were so expendable.” The love triangle skews toward the boy who offers the more emotionally healthy choice, though he is prone toward saccharine declarations. Readers familiar with the first volume will enjoy this final leg of Anouk’s journey in which enemies become family and the powerless become powerful. Despite her suspicions, Anouk bargains with him for a chance to rescue her friends, become a witch, and gain power. When Rennar, crown prince of the Shadow Royals, shows up at her door, a shoe missing and fear in his eyes, something is clearly wrong. Rennar’s crows surround Anouk’s home, where she is now trapped, her plans to study magic at an academy having stalled. The conclusion to Shepherd’s ( Grim Lovelies, 2018, etc.) duology begins six weeks after the siege of Montélimar. A girl struggles with what she is: not animal, not human, not witch.
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