First, I want to point out that this book is intended for an adult audience, and I would recommend checking the TWs before continuing, as it is a story that handles a wide range of difficult topics.
With that out of the way… OH MY GOD. This book had me in a chokehold! I’m not exactly a fast reader, and it is quite a big boy, but I just couldn’t put this book down until I was done. I devoured every single chapter. The setting! The characters! The drama!
I would say that the first half of the book is mostly character driven; we get to meet the polyamorous thruple family consisting in Amiere (a sapient lion-hybrid), Liesle (a sapient winged-lion hybrid), and Su (a 4 arm Godblood). I call them hybrids for the purpose of the review, but there’s much more to each character than the animal they resemble. The thruple has six kids, with one more on the way. Sadly, in the opening we meet the family right when they lost one of their children.
The first part is like a telenovela, were we see our main characters (through the eyes of Amiere), trying to cope with the loss of their daughter, Tawny, mixed in with the bitter return of unwanted old friends, and the pressure Amiere feels to not disappoint his boss.
But the second part of the book, everything explodes. I don’t want to share anything for the sake of spoilers, but the pages just went flying by as I reached the end. Something the author does right, is that they don’t force the ending, and we don’t get the ending that some readers may want, but the one the story deserves, and it was simply amazing. Even after a whole day from finishing, I still find it hard to put my excitement into words, it was just that good.