Description: Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years, the Ravenwood women have used their gift of dreaming for hire to gather information or to assassinate.
As she discovers her family's dark secret, Selene is torn between upholding her family's legacy--a legacy that supports her people--or seeking the true reason behind her family's gift.
Her dilemma comes to a head when she is tasked with assassinating the one man who can bring peace to the nations, but who will also bring about the downfall of her own house.
One path holds glory and power, and will solidify her position as Lady of Ravenwood. The other path holds shame and execution. Which will she choose? And is she willing to pay the price for the path chosen?
My Thoughts: This book admittedly started out a bit rocky for me. There was very little I found to like about the main character in those first pages, and a lot the information about motivations and the family's legacy were repeated more than twice. However, I knew that a lot of people whose opinions I respect had rated this book highly, so I kept on with an open mind. And I am glad that I did.
After Selene comes fully into her gift and the reader is introduced to the other point of view characters, the story picks up. At this point, if there was a lot of repetition, I was far too engaged to notice. Damien's character is mostly responsible for this, as I found his perspective a noble one and anticipated knowing whether or not he would learn of the Ravenwood gift.
I still was not a huge fan of Selene. But her curiosity about the way the gifts and the houses used to be lent me more compassion toward her, especially once she begins to fight against what she knows is wrong. I hope that opinion of her will only grow as the series goes on.
Overall, I am happy with this new story world and excited to see what Morgan does with it in the future.
I have provided an honest review after having received a copy of the book from the publisher.
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