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Sixteen-year-old Winnie Bray is a liar. As the resident psychic at an oddities shop, Winnie truly can see the future. But her customers only want reassurance, and Winnie only wants their money. Favorable fortunes are a fast track to funding her way out of Buffalo, New York for good, after all.

But all of that changes when a vision sends her stalking in the remains of her family home that burned down in a fire 10 years ago. Among the ash and rubble, Winnie finds a box made of bone, untouched by flames and…whispering. At the touch of her finger, the box shows her a vision of death, chaos, and apocalypse, with her and rich kids Apollo and Cyrus Rathbun at the center.

Apollo knows their cousin is up to no good, and with the Rathbun family scattered to the wind, they know Cyrus is aiming to present himself as the new patriarch. Despite an initial attraction, Apollo is reluctant to believe Winnie. But soon it becomes clear that their family histories are intertwined, with the whispering, hungry box at the very center, and more than their lives are on the line. Together, they must discover the origins of the box and stop unforeseen forces from fulfilling the apocalyptic prophecy, or die trying.

Short and Sweet Review

Roar of the Lambs follows our main characters Winnie, Apollo, and Cyrus who discover a mysterious box that could bring along the end of the world.

In this book we only get the POV of Winnie and Apollo which was good enough for what the story was giving, we also get chapters that are flashbacks to the past. Winnie is able to see the future and she works in a local shop reading fortunes and telling people what they want to hear. Winnie has a vision that leads her to the box which she learns from her vision is dangerous, but she also ends up meeting Apollo and Cyrus. Apollo and Cyrus are cousins but when they’re together Cyrus is definitely in charge. Winnie and Apollo learn that the box has intertwined their families in the past but they also learn they need to keep it away from Cyrus who doesn’t have good intentions. I liked seeing how the box has affected past generations. The book was okay, I would say the first half of the book really draws you in but towards the end I was struggling to care what’ll happen next. Cyrus wasn’t a great villain he just seemed like someone who usually got what he wanted because of his social status.

Overall, this book was okay it wasn’t my favorite read. This isn’t a book I would reread because it faltered towards the end and I wish there was more to the plot it felt a bit lackluster at the end of the book. The premise was great but the followthrough wasn’t.