


I enjoyed the writing style and found the story to be well developed. This was my first book by the author and I have proceeded to buy her previous books and I have pre-ordered the next in this series. It really allowed me as a reader to connect to the characters and become invested in the outcome of their relationship. I liked that their feelings developed at a realistic pace and wasn't instantaneous. I found it amusing that she didn't want to admit to her feelings for Orpheus and kept talking herself out of leaving by making very lame excuses. Despite having a horrible life before Orpheus she remained pragmatic and future focussed. I loved how he eventually felt secure about Reia and her feelings for him. His need to keep her safe and happy overcame even his most basic hunter instincts. His loneliness and fear that he will lose Reia, as he has lost so many before, is heartbreaking. Orpheus is adorable with his determination to provide Reia with anything she could possibly need. I initially read it on KU and then bought myself a kindle copy and a physical copy for my bookshelf.


I absolutely adored this book and everything about it and the characters. She's not afraid of him, and his insatiable desire deepensīut will Orpheus be able to convince Reia to stay before she's lost to him forever? He'd thought it was a hopeless endeavour, until he met her. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short. His skull face and glowing eyes are ethereal, and she finds herself unwittingly enchanted by him.Įach decade, in exchange for a protection ward from the Demons that terrorise the world, Orpheus takes a human offering to the Veil - the place he lives and the home of Demons. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice - be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster. Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village.
