Ravensong
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
“Heartfelt, thrilling, and refreshingly steeped in lore.” —Courtney Gould, bestselling author of The Dead and the Dark
A demi-god who refuses to cohabitate with humans accidentally falls in love with one in the “appealing, Buffy-tinged” (Publishers Weekly) first book of a pulse-pounding teen duology.
Neve has spent lifetimes defending the mortal world against the legions of hell with her two sisters.
Unfortunately for Neve, in this lifetime, she is the only one of the Morrigan—a triad of Irish war gods—still stuck in high school and still without her full power. She’s been counting down the days until her eighteenth birthday, when she finally gets to shed the pretenses of humanity and grow into her divine power.
But then she meets Alexandria. And Alexandria is as determined to force Neve into some semblance of teenage normalcy as she is haunted by her own demons—both figurative and literal.
As they grow closer, Neve decides that humanity—and, perhaps, love—isn’t so detestable after all. Which makes it all the more dangerous when she realizes that something in Hell wants Alexandria, and it’s up to Neve and her sisters to save her before Alexandria’s past catches up to all of them.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In tiny Newgrange Harbor, also known as Massachusetts's "Secret Salem," 17-year-old Neve Morgan is the youngest in a triad of reincarnating sister-goddesses known as the Morrigan, who are tasked with preventing demons from entering the world via a portal to hell. As much as she yearns to battle, though, she's not yet 18, and is therefore "stuck in the bullshit liminal space between humanity and divinity," separated from her powers, the memories of her former lives, and the older sisters determined to protect her. Worse, if she dies before reaching adulthood, the event will break the cycle of magic that brings the trio back, leaving the world unguarded. Neve nevertheless persists, training and fighting while maintaining her prickly reputation at school. When she encounters transfer student Alexandria Abbott during a battle with a demon one night, she and Alexandria become tentative school friends, in turn attracting others into a diverse friendship circle. As Neve and Alexandria fall for one another, the demon attacks upon the town intensify, leading to a terrifying revelation about the Morgan sisters' true origin. Twining Irish mythology into solid worldbuilding and plenty of action scenes, Fay's appealing, Buffy-tinged debut, a duology starter, offers up rich emotional interplay as perpetually snarky Neve slowly reveals her vulnerable side. Protagonists read as white. Ages 12–up.
