OH MY GOD THIS WAS AWESOME. 
 So awesome that I wish I could give it a perfect score but ahhh I do have my reasons for not going so... Will explain it when I post my review! Will try to do it sometime later today. 
 Either way, this is so worth reading! If any of you have the chance to get your hands on this when it releases, definitely do so! 
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 To begin my review: I was ECSTATIC when I was able to find this so early (I know I mentioned this before but ok I've never found a book so early from its actual release date like this before!!), so once I had it at home I definitely had to get to this as soon as I could to see if the story itself would live up to my excitement. 
 And my god, it did. It definitely did. 
 I don't exactly know what it was about this one, but something about this just made it stand out so much to me. The history about all the magic and the magic itself in this book was so interesting, the the characters were overall great (and not even close to perfect, which I always love seeing in my characters), and the way that Jessica Cluess organized the build up to all the most important scenes just summed up to one great ride for me. 
 Henrietta was a great main character to read about, and I loved rooting for her through everything she had to face. And the rest were great too. Blackwood, Hargrove, Magnus, Agrippa, Lily,..........Blackwood.........and yea Blackwood. XD 
 The reason why I had to take off a star was because of the romance aspects. I could tell that the author was setting up a possible romance between Henrietta and one of the characters, but I honestly really couldn't tell who she was trying to make her go for. It seems like at this moment there are two options in particular that she is thinking about but neither of them really played out for me as a good start for a romance. Both seemed really awkward in their own ways and I never found her relationships with either of them to be more than platonic. In all honesty, I think there could be a possible romance between her and another character, but at the same time as time went on I started feeling very satisfied about their really strong/powerful friendship. At this moment, the story could do without romance in my opinion. I don't think it's needed, especially seeing how things were done. However, this is still the first book in the series so IF Jessica Cluess could find a way to turn things around between one of the possible pairings, it would be interesting to see. I do think I like the idea of Henrietta having very strong platonic relationships with these choices for a while longer though, and I hope [I reaally hope] that the author will still be able to include these friendships in some way in the rest of the series and that they won't be ruined if she decides to take the romance route for one of the pairings. 
 Other than that though, a REALLY great book to give a shot with! If you like a lot of magic, I think you'll enjoy giving this a try. Like I said prior to writing this review, if anyone has the opportunity to get this when it officially releases, I highly suggest you do so!