Evocation

If you're looking for a dark-academia-demonology-summoners-circle type of book, look no further than Evocation. If you liked Bardugo's Ninth House, you'd like Evocation. (Added bonus of Evocation being pretty dang gay, too.) Basically, if you want the feeling of an old dark dust-covered mansion with a chalk circle in the library...you've found the right book.

I was not the biggest fan of David, but I don't actually think you're supposed to like him all that much. He's a spoiled rich boy who gets everything he's ever wanted. (He does have a sad/tragic/awful backstory, but his personality doesn't change much over the course of the book.) I really liked Rhys and Moira, though. They were couple goals, really. Moira is a bright light in the darkness of this book. And it is fairly dark, though not a lot of violence takes place. It's just...demons.

Actually, there's not a whole lot that happens really, over the course of the book. David finds himself possessed, and then turns to Rhys and Moira for help figuring out what exactly is going on. They all fall in love. Ish. ALLLLSOOOOOO I was promised polyamory, but Moira and David don't really ~love~ each other in the romantic sense. OR at least that's how I read the book. It was more platonic between them, but definitely romantic between David and Rhys. IDK maybe I don't know what polyamory is exactly.

EITHER WAY – Evocation is a decent read, but it's not particularly plot heavy. It's more of a character study with a tiny splash of plot in the background. I'm going to give it three and a half stars, simply because I really wanted there to be a MMF relationship hidden in there somewhere.