Name: Promise of Shadows
ISBN: 9781442444645

Justina Ireland

On the run after using forbidden magic to escape her sister's murderer, reluctant harpy Zephyr Mourning pursues a steamy romance with a friend from childhood while exploring her own surprising identity as a dark goddess prophesied to shift the balance of power among her fellow deities.

Promise of Shadows

Addison Degginger

I just can't get into this book. I wanted to, but the plot was one I couldn't connect to.

“A healthy dose of action, a strong thread of humor and just a touch of romance” (VOYA, starred review). A teen who is half-god, half-human must own her power whether she likes it or not in this snappy, snarky novel with a serving of smoldering romance that Kirkus Reviews calls “a dark, slyly funny read.” Zephyr Mourning has never been very good at being a Harpy. She’d rather watch reality TV than learn forty-seven ways to kill a man, and she pretty much sucks at wielding magic. Zephyr was ready for a future pretending to be a normal human instead of a half-god assassin. But all that changed when her sister was murdered—and Zephyr used a forbidden dark power to save herself from the same fate. On the run from a punishment worse than death, an unexpected reunion with a childhood friend upends Zephyr’s world—and not only because her old friend has grown surprisingly, extremely hot. It seems that Zephyr might just be the Nyx, a dark goddess that is prophesied to shift the power balance: for hundreds of years the half-gods have lived in fear, and Zephyr is supposed to change that. But how is she supposed to save everyone else when she can barely take care of herself?

Sheila

This was better than I expected! It was fun, the protag was flawed in all the best ways, and I'm just amused by the idea of Hermes wearing couture (because he would) (possibly even Hermès lmao) I had even more fun with the story when I pretended that it took place in the same universe as the Raven Boys books - similar geographical area, fun fantastical stuff, they just seemed to fit together. The ending was left wide open IMO so I'm hoping there's a sequel coming out in the future. 

This book was a fluffy palate cleanser after the insanity of the Southern Reach trilogy, and for that I appreciate it <3