Review

TW – sexual assault,rape, animals death, drug use

I picked this book up on a whim as I have been interested in this book for a long while now, and I needed something either quick or fast paced for me to read. as this was under 300 pages It was a super fast read but the book inside is definitely full of happy times but also some very emotional and upsetting times as well.

this book is a magical realism story which follows Georgina and Mary two twin sisters who live in a small town called by the sea which is set on a island, this island holds the legacy of the fernweh family who Mary and Georgina are apart of and they all have a reputation of possessing magical powers such as, telepathy, flying, floating and so much more. every summer by the sea becomes a tourist attraction for a lot of people as 300 years ago a woman named Annabelle who is also from the feenweh ancestry line turned into a bird and every year people called birdseeds come and visit the Island to find Annabelle and to make sure the rumours are true. This year however something strange has happened and for some unknown reason Annabelle hasn’t turned up, so after a few days of lots of people worrying and birdseeds becoming impatient they go out on the hunt to try ad find Annabelle all over the island. until one night Georgina is told that they have found Annabelle but dead.

as everyone sees the body over the next couple of days the birdheads/ most of the island turn the accustorary finger onto Mary one of the Fernweh twins, but Georgina deep down knows that Mary could never harm a bird or even one as legendary as Annabelle. Georgina starts to second guess herself though because when Annabelle’s corpse was found Mary all of a sudden started to act strange and hide a secret that Mary would not tell anyone about. so Georgina makes it her mission to find out the whole truth.

in the background of this story we see a beautiful romantic relationship start to take shape with Georgina and Prue who arrived on the island with her brother Harrison at the start of the summer. Prue is also a birdied and is very fascinated about the bird as most of the island. Prue and Georgina I really just loved the dynamic of these two together and as it was not the forefront of the story would love to have seen even. more scenes with these two together if the book was longer but overall it was so cute.

Overall this book was such a fantastic read and for me very fast paced. I loved the atmosphere, the magical abilities of the women and the friendships and F/F romance that were really great. my only little bit of criticism is that I wish the book was longer because I could read about these characters for a while or even if Justin a whim if Katrina Leno brought back this story and make a second book that would be amazing. at parts near the end I did feel like everything happened very quickly but overall thumbs up for and I would definitely recommend to people.

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