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Oct 08, 2025 ✥❤️‍ Kayla ❤️‍✥ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

4.5 ⭐️

This was a very well-thought out and well-written standalone fantasy. I really enjoyed the fantasy/industrial vibes, I think it is very unique. I very much enjoyed these characters who were all complex and multi-faceted. Sciona herself is an AMAZING FMC. She is hyper-intelligent and at first naive and we get to pretty much watch her grow into a caring and fearless archmage. But even characters like Bringham were not so simple as being good or evil and this nuance was very intriguing. I did ...more

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Oct 29, 2024 Allison rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This is probably the longest review I will ever write for a book, but it was earned.

Incredible. Perfection. There cannot be any criticism. This is the best book I have ever read, which is a huge statement considering how much I read.

The themes in this book are its strongest element. Racism, sexism, classism, and immigration to name a few. This would be an incredible book for assigned reading for a class. It contains so many topics to dissect, I wish I had a group of people to discuss it with. This is probably the longest review I will ever write for a book, but it was earned.

Incredible. Perfection. There cannot be any criticism. This is the best book I have ever read, which is a huge statement considering how much I read.

The themes in this book are its strongest element. Racism, sexism, classism, and immigration to name a few. This would be an incredible book for assigned reading for a class. It contains so many topics to dissect, I wish I had a group of people to discuss it with.

This is set in a dystopian world where the city of Tiran is protected by a barrier from the blight- which essentially kills the people that live outside of this barrier. These people are known as Kwen.

The magic system is one of the more unique ones I have read, and was so interesting.

A university in Tiran contains the highest level of essentially magicians- highmages who invent and produce to keep Tiran and its people within it, functioning. Only men can become highmages, although women are given the opportunity to test in once each decade.

Which brings our main character Sciona, who becomes the first ever woman highmage.

Sconia as a character is so complex and deep that she is so hateable at times, but other times you have to root for her. She is so flawed, but how much of this is her and how much of this is the society she’s been raised in? She is brilliant but fails to realize she supports what she believes is “right” so blindly without always grasping how flawed her morals can be. She steadfastly abhors the fact that she is looked down upon because she is a woman, but fails to realize her hypocrisy when she does the same. - “sciona foundered, frustrated by her inability to come up with a logical answer when tiranish culture was the one built on logic. The kwen were the illogical ones, everyone knew that”

I NEVER use the highlight feature on my kindle and I was highlighting lines of this book like it was my job.
I literally do not know how I’m going to read another book after this and be able to give it 5 stars because it just will not compare to this one. ...more

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Mar 29, 2025 Kareena rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Incredible!

Every aspect of this story was impeccable. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful.
Sciona's character arc was one of the best I've ever read.

I love that this is a standalone. Everything that needs to be said in one volume.
Just what I've been looking for.

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