The Stathos Sisters are a pressure to be reckoned with!
The Darkness Inside Us
Fantasy
Feiwel & Pals
July 9, 2024
E book, Hardback, Audiobook
336
Chrysantha Stathos has gained. By hiding her intelligence and ambition behind the masks of a ravishing air-headed lady, she has gathered essential secrets and techniques, earned her father’s fixed care, and grow to be a rich duchess—all by age nineteen. Now, she is just one aged, dying duke away from having all the liberty, cash, and security she’s ever wished. Or so she thought. Seems her little sister by some means snatched the true victory away from her: Alessandra is marriage ceremony the Shadow King, probably the most highly effective man on this planet. In the meantime, after the dying of Chrysantha’s no-good, lecherous husband, a person claiming to be the duke’s estranged grandson turns as much as inherit every thing that ought to be hers. Chrysantha is enraged. There isn’t a manner that she’s going to let some man take every thing from her. By no means thoughts that he’s extraordinarily good-looking and secretive and alluring with mysterious powers… No, Chrysantha needs Eryx Demos lifeless, and ultimately, a Stathos lady at all times will get what she needs.
The Darkness Inside Us by Tricia Levenseller is the brand new spin-off of her 2020 hit, The Shadows Between Us. That being mentioned, I can attest that you would be able to begin with this one and nonetheless absolutely perceive and revel in it. Although it will spoil the primary guide for you.
“My husband is taking too lengthy to die.”
Chrysantha Stathos has hustled and schemed her complete life to attain freedom in a world dominated by males. Now, married to a dying duke, it’s all lastly inside attain. That’s till Eryx Demos turns up claiming to be her husband’s grandson and inheritor to her dukedom. His mysterious appeal gained’t sway her in relation to prying his claws out of what’s hers, even when she begins to suspect he might need literal claws.
This guide is ideal on your laziest studying days. There isn’t a lot exposition, however the world-building isn’t advanced sufficient for it to be complicated. The magic system particularly isn’t actually defined. I can’t communicate to what was established within the first guide, however having gone into this one blind I initially thought this was a fantasy within the sense of vibes after which was pleasantly shocked by the magical twist. Whereas I imagine it’s marketed as YA, this story does comprise some extra mature themes so far as sexual autonomy. That being mentioned, none of it’s express on the web page and any spiciness is ‘closed door.’
We’re thrown straight into who Chrysantha is and what her stakes are. The story is completely in her POV, which is a mushy, heat middle wrapped in a snarky romp of a sweet coating. I imagine it to be a problem to write down a personality who readers will discover endearing and root for when she’s actively planning murders for almost all of the guide, and I rooted for Chrysantha and each ounce of savageness present in her inside monologue. I additionally actually loved seeing her rising relationship along with her sister, Alessandra the FMC from The Shadows Between Us. It was a beautiful acknowledgment of how we will coexist in hardship and but be completely unaware of the allies we have now. They’re allowed to see that although they survived their father’s home in numerous methods, it doesn’t want to return between them.
“Earlier than, I wasn’t a violent individual. Earlier than, I’d been endurance personified. Now, I’m free. Now, I will be no matter I would like.”
This guide is the lightest form of palette cleanser, offering one thing enjoyable and straightforward to utterly inhale. I don’t wish to say it’s form of cozy given the quantity of homicide plots, however… I wouldn’t not say that. You’re given considerate, distinctive characters who’ve sufficient stakes to maintain issues transferring with out ever getting significantly suspenseful and simply sufficient romance to make it actually fascinating. I’d advocate The Darkness Inside Us to anybody searching for one thing quietly pleasant to learn within the sunshine. Particularly to those that loved The Shadows Between Us, as a result of we love a cameo.
Gabi grew up transferring world wide along with her household, making books in English a little bit of a luxurious that needed to be rationed. These days she lives in East London, the place books will be learn as voraciously as she likes. Fantasy books will ceaselessly be her old flame, and she or he’s at all times searching for the following collection to eat each of her mind cells. Her days typically include working as a software program developer, squeezing in a chapter at her desk, and pining after the Picadilly Waterstones.