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Her name is unimportant.
All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain—an evil which has already killed nine of her village’s men.
She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.
Today she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother’s shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?
This searing and lyrically written novel by the critically acclaimed author of Sawkill Girls beckons readers to follow its fierce heroine into a world filled with secrets and blood—where the truth is buried in lies and a devastating power waits, seething, for someone brave enough to use it.
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The reviews on Extasia are mixed, but I for one enjoyed it. I loved the premise and the execution, and more than that, I loved the characters (yes, I have a bias for all things witchy and lesbian...I'm projecting, I know). There were a few times in the book where a character made a choice and I was like “really?!?!” which is why I took a star off (not because the choices were bad, per se, I'm all for characters making bad choices, but because they felt inconsistent with the characters) but overall, I was wildly enamored with this book from the start. The topic is disturbing, yet something I could see manifesting so it wasn't too far-fetched, even if in some ways it was, and I appreciated the way Legrand brought the topics to life with complex and interesting characters.
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