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The Blood Moon rises. The Blood Veil falls. The Tournament begins.

Every generation, at the coming of the Blood Moon, seven families in the remote city of Ilvernath each name a champion to compete in a tournament to the death.

The prize? Exclusive control over a secret wellspring of high magick, the most powerful resource in the world—one thought long depleted.

But this year a scandalous tell-all book has exposed the tournament and thrust the seven new champions into the worldwide spotlight. The book also granted them valuable information previous champions never had—insight into the other families’ strategies, secrets, and weaknesses. And most important, it gave them a choice: accept their fate or rewrite their legacy.

Either way, this is a story that must be penned in blood.

When the blood moon rises the blood veil falls and that means its time for the tournament to begin. Seven families choose a champion to compete in the tournament and the prize is the family gets control of the magick supply. But this year is different because a tell all book has been released sharing insights into each family, the book has also put a spotlight on Ilvernath bring tourist from all over to see the tournament.

Even though there’s seven competitors we only get the POV of four of them, Alistair, Gavin, Briony, and Isobel. They’re all very interesting in their own way. Alistair was raised believing that his family are monsters actual villains and most Lowes win the competition and he’s expected to win this years. Briony has always wanted to be a champion and represent her family so she’s pretty upset when her sister is picked instead of her, but after that she decides that she wants to end the competition instead of winning it. Isobel has never wanted to be a champion so she tries to find a way to avoid it but her dad is having none of that, so she goes into the tournament determined to win and not disappoint her dad even though she really wants to be anywhere else. Gavin is pretty much seen as weak and the other competitors don’t like him because the tell all book was written by someone in his family. Most of Gavins chapters are pretty short so I felt like he wasn’t as important as the other three characters.

The tournament was different there’s relics and landmarks for the competitors to go to and also its a tournament to the death so we see them throwing curses at each other. It was fun to see what they would curse each other with and how the magic system in this book worked. We also see a few alliances form and we read about why alliances don’t work for this kind of tournament, there can only be one winner. There’s also excerpts from the tell all book at the start of each chapter that gives us an insight to how each family goes about their strategies.

This was a good book and it’ll keep you entertained. The characters, the magick, the plot twists, all worked and it’ll keep you reading until the very end. I’m excited to see how everything is going to end in the next book!