Stars: 3.5/5
Recommended to: Fans of time travel novels, fans of fiction.
To be Published on: August 15th, 2017

Thank you to Netgalley and AmazonCrossing for allowing me to read this novel!

The first thing that drew me to this book was the cover of it. I know, I know, "Don't judge a book by its cover." but in this case, I definitely think it was worth it. This novel was very good and I am glad that I was able to pick it up. Brianda struggles with a lot during this novel, learning that a new friend isn't quite who she seems, many deaths, relationship strains, and many other things that aren't as normal (like remembering things from a distant past.)

Brianda has real traits, she was definitely not a Mary Sue in my eyes. She had real worries and went through a lot of tribulations. I felt that she was very grounded and was a well rounded character, someone that the reader could connect to.

The reason why I gave this book 3.5 stars was because I felt that the middle, when we learn of Brianda of the past, was dragging on. I understand that we needed to know about what happened so that we could get back to the Brianda of the present, but it felt like too much was going on. I didn't enjoy it because there were too many people coming into the novel so quickly. I had already learned the character's names from the Brianda of the present, so having to learn around ten new names and jumping into a story that was in media res was something I wasn't expecting.

Once I got through the first time that the author did this, it became easy to understand the chapters from the past and the characters in them. As I came closer and closer to the end of the novel I found myself trying to read faster because I wanted to know how it ended. I needed to know how it ended. 
This book holds a wonderful and dark world about the past of distant villages and towns that history does not pay attention to anymore.