All of this is woven into Tamsin’s character, and it created a wealth of wonderfully written pain and anguish. It drains the color and the joy from life. It takes away positive experiences and replaces them with negative ones. Love is something that is welded into every facet of life, and when it’s gone, life is completely altered. For me, it’s so hard to imagine life without love, but I feel like Tooley captured it really well. Speaking of Tamsin, I thought the love curse was incredibly written. She’s determined and fierce, and she’s learning to open up. But there is still something about her that is so lovable. She’s swimming through a sea of pain and guilt and grief, with nothing to balance the negative feelings out. She is the epitome of grumpy from the grumpy/sunshine dynamic. She’s cold and brittle, cursed to live without love. She’s the kind of girl who stops to usher turtles across the road and doesn’t blink an eye when asked to give something up to provide help. She’s sweet and wonderful, with an inner strength she is learning she possesses. She’s like a flower reaching towards the sun, shielding little mice from it’s scorching rays. She added such a sweet, caring, selfless feeling to this book. One of the things that I loved most about this book was Wren. But, I did fall in love with it, because there are so many things to love. I don’t think I fell completely, head over heels, in love with this one. It’s a journey of magic, painful and hopeful, and so beautifully written.
It feels likes a quiet purple hue, filled with saplings and talking toads. I also found out it had a cat, so this book was filled to the brim with things that I wanted to know more about. Then I found out that it was about a witch who is unable to love traveling with girl who is a source of magic to stop a plague that is ravaging the queendom. Yeah, that was enough for me to be completely invested. Of course, love bargains are a tricky thing, and these two have a long, perilous journey ahead of them-that is, if they don’t kill each other first. To save him, Wren proposes a bargain: if Tamsin will help her catch the dark witch responsible for creating the plague, then Wren will give Tamsin her love for her father. When a magical plague ravages the queendom, Wren’s father falls victim. Sources are required to train with the Coven as soon as they discover their abilities, but Wren-the only caretaker to her ailing father-has spent her life hiding her secret. Wren is a source-a rare kind of person who is made of magic, despite being unable to use it herself. The only way she can get those feelings back-even for just a little while-is to steal love from others. But after committing the worst magical sin, she’s exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation. McElderry Books and Netgalley for the e-ARC!
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