The Song of the Marked (Shadows and Crowns)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ /5 stars!This series is the reason I fell in love with reading again 🫶🏼.Here what’s you can expect: enemies to loves, great banter, vicious gods, and some spice 🌶️🤩 (we love to see it). S.M. Gaither creates a beautiful world and a whole group of characters you can’t help but love and care for. 10/10 recommend & definitely be ready to have this series consume your life🤣

❤️Action. ❤️ Magic. ❤️ Characters. ❤️ Romance. ❤️ Plot Twists. ❤️A bit of woohooThis series has just become one of my favourites. It has a badass heroine like Throne of glass and the romance and plot twists of From Blood and Ash. It’s as if someone smooshed those two bokes together, they had a baby and that baby is called Song of The Marked.Casia was a great character, she was fearless while being terrified, her love of friends and family was such a strong drive for everything she did. Her story had a nice slow-paced start for us to get to know her and then it all just sped up halfway through the book. I also loved reading about a character with anxiety as I could relate to how she often felt, such a refreshing writing style.Elander…..swoon. He is everything you want from a male lead in these types of books. Powerful, strong-willed, sexy af, with a good sense of humour. He reminded me a bit of Rhysand from ACOTR but was still his own unique character since especially with what happened at the end 🙊The whole story was great. I loved the world, every single character was interesting and had their own proper personality and quirks. It got to the stage I couldn't put the book down, or I had to re-read a few pages cause it was just SO SO GOOD.I bow down to S.M.Gaither for her phenomenal story, the ending that I did not fully anticipate and the writing style that had me hooked! 👏👏👏👏Thank God I already have the second book so I can get straight at it or I would lose my mind.Over all a solid 9/10 for this amazing book which did not feel like a clone of S.J.Maas which many books like this I've read and felt like.

This book shocked me with pretty much everything. The found family, the morally grey heroine, the GADDANG BANTER, the spice?! I went into this thinking it was YA but it was definitely NA.Pick up this series ASAP as possible.

This book was sooooo good! It has such a unique world and is such a unique story. The worldbuilding is amazing and not overwhelming at all. It also has amazing character development and you really get to know the characters. Casia is one of my new favorite heroines!It does a fantastic job of showcasing real mental health struggles and makes them a real part of the character, not just a short insert into the story for clout.I absolutely cannot wait to start the next one and I can’t wait for book 3! 10/10 recommend reading this series!

Amazing world building and great character development! I adored the enemies to lovers and the plot twists were incredible!