EVERY WISH HAS A COST BUT WILL THE SOCIETY BE WILLING TO PAY IT? Once a hacker-for-hire living in the shadows, Josephina “Jo” Espinosa is the newest member of a magical Society. Their mandate? To grant the wishes of mortals. A simple enough task until Jo is faced with an impossible wish – and her inability to grant it might spell disaster for her entire team, if not the Society itself. Jo is used to high-pressure situations, but after a string of disasters, the last thing she needs is stakes of this magnitude. Especially given that neither she nor the Society know quite what the consequences of failing to grant a wish might be. The only person with answers is the Society’s aloof and cryptic leader, Snow. Yet while Jo is enigmatically drawn to the man, all their clandestine encounters leave her with only more questions about the true nature of the Society, her magic, and her own history. Time is running out for the Society, and an executioner will rise from among them to exact the price of failure.
This was essentially a typical book two for me. I had a bit of a hard time getting into it, I did have high hopes for it though. The beginning started off with a bang which lead to a quick cool down that lasted quite a while for me. Some of the character interactions seemed forced and lead into a roller coaster of scenes for me. The pace would pick up and moved a good fast pace, then they would plummet and I would have to force myself through it. I honestly didn't get into this until it was at around 60% ish.
At which point I read it until it was done!
Once I got past the initial slump with the book, the pace picked up and stayed there. In this type of book, I prefer a fast pace over a slow pace. When there is a lot going on, you need to keep the tempo pretty quick and steady or else you get lost in the information and detail. Now don't get me wrong, I love detail and information. But when it's at a slow pace it can just get repetitive. The character interaction seemed more natural.
Emotions ran high, I'm not going to lie. Even though I saw the ending coming it still shocked me in the end. I guess a part of me hoped it wasn't actually going to happen.
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