Twilight’s Curse by K.M. Wray
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The writing.. the story.. the characters… ALL OF IT! It’s amazing. I did not want to put this book down, but life forced me to take a couple of days to finish it. KM Wray did an amazing job getting this story down on paper and introducing us all to an incredible world full of elves, brownies, and other mystical beings.
We start out learning the origin story of Nix and everything that he had to go through as a child with losing his parents and watching his realm be taken over by the people that killed them. He and his father’s royal advisor fled the Royal tree and remained in hiding for some time to make the regents believe that the prince had not survived. Nate advised him and taught him all that he could while remaining his mentor over the years. He wanted Nix prepared for when the time came for him to finally take his rightful place as the new King. There are a few time-jumps that take place, so we rely on present-day memories to help us fill in the gaps of missing time.
We then meet Zoe – we do a couple of time jumps with her as well until we’re in the present time. She was experimented on by her parents with painful tattoos, treated horribly by her brother, and finally fled the fortress with one of the younger girls that had also been getting the experimental tattoos and treatment. When she fled, she had nowhere to go and ended up with a character that we already know. She is tough, resilient, and is learning from her new home and life experiences. Her goal is to stop her mother and save anyone else who has become a victim of those horrible experiments.
The two of them meeting and filling in the blanks of their histories really held my attention. There was a future foretold that seems to be coming true, there are surprises that you never see coming, and I love the friendship that appears to slowly be turning into something more as time goes on. I cannot wait to see what the rest of the series brings. I look forward to reading the rest of this trilogy. If you haven’t picked it up yet, it’s the time! Thank you, KM Wray, for writing something SO GOOD!

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