Rating: 1.5/5 
 (I received a free copy from the publisher, 47North, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.) 
 ***Minor spoilers*** 
 Maire is different. She's lost her memory of who she was, and she is able to infuse the baked goods she makes with certain emotions that she brings forward while baking. Then, whenever a person eats it, they experience that emotion. On a walk home one day, Maire notices a strange spirit who nobody else could see. Not long after, that spirit tells her she needs to run. It isn't long before she finds out why - her town is being looted by marauders. Unfortunately, Maire didn't have enough time to hide herself away properly, and she is taken in as a slave to be sold. She is bought by a man named Allemas who knows the magic she has and is using it for himself. While with Allemas, the spirit returns and tells her she needs to get away from Allemas, and that he is a bad man. She wants to escape and return to the couple who took her in when she had no known family, but how? 
 Anybody who has read some of my reviews would probably know that I really dislike when not enough information is given over the course of the novel. I'm all for big reveals at the end of the book, but I hate when absolutely everything is confusing until the end of the book. I guess it would be more tolerable if this book was shorter, but during the middle of the book it was just a lot of the same thing over and over again without the plot progressing much at all. I think I could've taken either the standstill OR the confusion without a huge hit to my rating, but when both are present it's just boring, confusing, and not fun at all. 
 Everything came together in the end and made enough sense, but to me it didn't really excuse the confusion in the middle. It's a bit hard to write a plot progression when the main character has lost their memory and isn't getting it back, but I've seen it done before and I've seen it work. Maire does get some brief memories back along the way, but I think this would've been better and more interesting if she got either more memories back, or longer ones. Then she could've started piecing everything together faster, and we could've enjoyed knowing what was going on sooner. 
 Overall, this wasn't a terrible book, but the confusion is what really got to me. Paired with the plot not really moving between 25-75% I didn't enjoy this very much at all. Of course, some people may find the lack of information suspenseful and enjoy it, so I'm not saying you definitely shouldn't pick up this book. But if you're like me and you find that a bit annoying, this book most likely isn't for you. If you're interested in getting this book, it's available on Netgalley until July 12th, so act quickly: https://s2.netgalley.com/catalog/book...