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Title: With Fire in their Blood
Author: Kat Delacorte
Series: Skelton Keepers #1
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery
Representation: Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay
Pages: Approx. 350
Format: Kindle Edition
Published On: 1st September 2022
Published By: Penguin
SYNOPSIS (FROM GOODREADS):
With Fire In Their Blood is a simmering supernatural romance set in the crumbling Italian city of Castello, where mafia clans make the rules, dark magic pulses the streets and the sins of the past threaten to consume the present. Perfect for fans of These Violent Delights, The Darkest Minds and V.E. Schwab.
When sixteen-year-old Lilly Deluca arrives in Castello, she isn’t impressed. A secluded town in the Italian mountains is not where she saw her last years of high school playing out.
Divided for generations by a brutal clan-family war, the two halves of Castello are kept from destroying each other by the mysterious General, a leader determined to maintain order and ‘purity’. . . whatever the cost.
Lilly falls in with the rebellious Liza, brooding Nico and sensitive Christian, and sparks begin to fly. But in a city where love can lead to ruin, Lilly isn’t sure she can trust anyone – not even herself.
And then she accidentally breaks Castello’s most important rule: when the General’s men come to test your blood, you’d better not be anything more than human
BASIC BOOK REVIEW:
With an interesting premise and a high intrigue factor this book was definitely intriguing to say the least
What I Liked
Kat Delacorte’s writing style is pretty great, it can paint a vivid image and create high level of intrigue plus she is able to write pretty damn unlikable characters who mere presence on page can kinda, sorta piss you off and I liked that about the writing style.
The general theme of this book was eerie and filled with a sort of hopelessness given the state in which the people in the town of Castello like and it is pretty well shown in the book, throughout my time reading it, I was incredibly glad that I do not live there because man does that town have it’s issues.
The final plot twist was a definite curve ball and trust me you do not see it coming, I was left shocked and definitely intrigued to see where the author is planning to take the series next.
Our Main Character Lilly is thrust into this world of magic and murder headfirst and is left to figure out most of it by herself and with her we get to explore and understand everything and though she had thus hero complex of setting things right she also was realistically shown to ponder the shit she is thrust into and actually hating it and though she starts kind of unlikable at the start, she definitely grows on you.
What I did not like
The ease of the plot, the quick allies she was able to make and the insta-love were the few things I did not like in the story
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kat Delacorte was eleven years old when her family moved from the United States to a small town in central Italy. She soon began writing stories about her new friends developing superpowers, and hasn’t looked back since. She lives with her cat in Venice, Italy.
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