Foretold - Violet Lumani

Genre: Fantasy | YA

Release Date: Expected 20th July 2021

Publisher: Uproar Books

After living her whole life with chronic anxiety and OCD, Cassandra is used to thinking the worst; to thinking there's death and destruction around every corner. Therapy helped teach her to cope and her Father has been as supportive as he could be but nothing has been the same since she lost her mother.

This time it's different though and she knows it. Colin, the boy next door and her newly found friend is going to due. It's happened once before, her visions becoming devastatingly real and now it's happening all over again.

Desperate to cheat death and save Colin from his untimely death, Cass finds herself enrolled in an Organisation of Scryers and Soothsayers, for people like her, that promise to help to her find a way to change the things she sees. But as she desceneds further into their world of magic she learns that changing fate and cheating death always comes with a price - and she's got to pay it.

Foretold is the first installment in the Scryers series, inspired by the authors own struggles with OCD that made this story so authentic and yet so magical at the same time. Right from the second line, I was locked in. I wanted to know Cass he world she lived in. She was introdued to us as a naive, quiet, somewhat sad young girl who played trivnometry and ate lasagne with her Dad every friday night and she grew and evolved in front of our eyes to a powerful, magical woman.

There were those quiet sparks of romance scattered throughout, but didn't take focus away from Cass and the friends she met on her journey who recognised that someone who is constantly having to fight a battle with their own mind is a true badass.

This story was full of familiar and comforting classic tropes without being boring - the universe and the lore created were rich and engrossing, although there were a few points throughout the story I felt that I didn't really know what was going on and maybe things could have been explained better.

I can't wait to see what Cass & Co get up to in their next adventure.

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to Violet Lumani, Uproar Books, IBPA and Netgalley for this ARC in return for an honest review.

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