The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine DoyleMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I can see why this one had a fairly long wait list at the library - it was almost two months after I ordered it there that I finally got to read it. Though this French inspired fantasy is marketed as YA, it definitely aims for more of an NA readership, with its dark tone (particularly when Ransom takes in more Shade, it’s very opium-like in nature), and especially its spicy moments. Not to the level of Rebecca Yarros or Thea Guanzon or SJM, but this book, like Guanzon’s Reylo-inspired books, is a great example of enemies to lovers actually done right, tense and engaging because it’s so hard to tell which side of that particular trope spectrum this book will fall on in the end. Except it’s not the end, not when Doyle is already about to publish a sequel by the end of this year…
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