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🗨 Isla climbed onto the railing. Her feet kicked air, high above the churning sea. She looked up at him. "Don't let me fall in."
His eyes met hers. "Never."
Isla glared at him.
"Never again," he amended.

💭 Sometimes a book gets 5 stars for the way it makes you feel at that moment. I was coming off a bunch of books that just weren't doing it, and couldn't remember the last 4 or 5 star book I had read.
Lightlark pulled me in immediately, and didn't let me go. It took effort to pause reading to deal with real life things. I just wanted to race to the end and somehow savor it simultaneously.
Isla was young and naive, but she's supposed to be. It worked here. The curses were devastating to read about, and Oro has me rooting for him. Poor guy. And while some twists I saw coming, some caught me very off-guard.
It's not a perfect book. I know the characters are supposed to be suspicious of each other, but a little more characterization would have worked well. The Centennial seems to be there because of current trends. Also, even though Celeste is also young, the 19 girl with the ancient guy leader is old (no pun intended). Some of the names are a little on the nose, but since the target audience is YA that gets a pass. I'm mainly tired of shadowy guys with shadow powers and shadowy personalities being the endgame. It's so overdone. How about a nice, sunny man who actually communicates instead of kill now ask later?
I'm really happy I got this edition, because the artwork and beautiful made it so much fun to read. *sighs happily* I love pretty books.
Grievances aside, I really enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to book 2.

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