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Read and edited for Amelia.
Rating: 4/5
Pages: 281 (Google Doc pages)
Started: 21 September 2022
Finished: 25 September 2022
Summary:
Washington, D.C. is a city of politics--and magic. Secret societies with occult power are the fastest route to success, and the Jefferson League is the best of the best. Maeve--perfect, brilliant and precise-- has been a spy for Jefferson for two years, in exchange for pills that help her achieve a focus and intelligence that surpasses regular human capability. But one day the organization asks her for too much, and though she knows that in the Jefferson League the price of disobedience is death, she questions her loyalty regardless. Her twin sister, Bellamy, is her opposite: ripped tights, dyed hair, playing at clubs with her band every night to try and drown out the guilt surrounding her father's death. But after Maeve's run-in with Jefferson rips apart her family, Bellamy has no choice but to accompany Maeve's gifted friend Alex in exposing Jefferson's immorality and cruelty once and for all.
Thoughts:
This book was so much fun to read. Maeve was so capable at the start of the book, which is always fun, to the point where even her magic-pill-dependency was tolerable, which is surprising since usually reading addiction is really hard for me because of the loss of control it represents. The mystery and suspense of the secret societies was also very exciting--it's such an interesting and elitist system, and is just plausible enough that I can imagine it being real. Bellamy was also super fun to read, especially in the ways that she mirrored and differed from her twin.The writing was--unsurprisingly--gorgeous as well. Both the climax and denouement of the book weren't quite right, but the problems seem super fixable. I think this book has so much potential and I'm super excited to see where it ends up.