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Kin<\/strong><\/em> Full moon. Glowing eyes. Red lips. And such sharp, sharp teeth…<\/b><\/p>\n In the kin world, girls Ruby de Varre\u2019s age are expected to play nice, get betrothed, and start a family – especially if they\u2019re rootkin, and the fate of the clan is riding on them. But after a childhood of running wild in the woods, it\u2019s hard to turn completely around and be demure. Even if your Gran is expecting it.<\/p>\n Then Conrad, handsome and charming, from a clan across the Waste, comes to New Haven to seal alliance between their two families. The sparks fly immediately. Conrad is smart, dominant, and downright gorgeous. Yet as Ruby gets to know him more, she starts to realize something’s… off.<\/p>\n Then, the murders start. A killer stalks the city streets, and just when Ruby starts to suspect the unimaginable, she becomes the next target. Now Ruby\u2019s about to find out that Conrad\u2019s secrets go deeper than she ever could have guessed – and it\u2019s up to Ruby to save her Gran, her clan, and maybe even herself…<\/i><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Review:<\/p>\n This was a really powerful story? Like, it was a little less fairytale-ish at times than the other two – but it was wonderful to see that each girl has their insecurities but ultimately at the end, they will come together for each other. Their love for one another is true, their friendship can survive and has survived so much? But this was also really terrifying because Ruby\u2019s vitality, her fierceness is slowly ebbed away until she snaps.<\/small><\/p>\n One of the most frightening things about this story is perhaps that Conrad could be any guy you meet, any \u201cbad boy\u201d with an air of danger you ignore because he seems so interested in you, seems so charming – and then you ignore all the flashes of things that seem out of place, like the snide insults and the emotional manipulation and start making excuses for the bruises. Except of course, the whole wolf thing, but god, that was frightening.<\/small><\/p>\n But the mystery of it all is pretty obvious if you look at it carefully. Like, the story pretty much unfolds easily, and your only worry is for Ruby<\/i> to realise who the true villain is and to keep herself safe, and to take help where it is offered. That makes the stress of it all the more real – the reader can sense what is coming, but Ruby is blind to it all.<\/small><\/p>\n It is also less of a love story than the other two, but still the undertones of Thorne\/Ruby and their fierce feelings and faith in one another is just amazing. I wouldn\u2019t mind a novella of them finally ending up together. (Or a novella of a triple date. Hoo boy that would be hilarious.)<\/small><\/p>\n I\u2019m glad I managed to finish this novel rather quickly, it was a great read. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll be reading any of her other books, but I definitely am thrilled I picked this series up.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kin by Lili St. Crow Full moon. Glowing eyes. Red lips. And such sharp, sharp teeth… In the kin world, girls Ruby de Varre\u2019s age are expected to play nice, get betrothed, and start a family – especially if they\u2019re rootkin, and the fate of the clan is riding on them. But after a childhood of running wild in the woods, it\u2019s hard to turn completely around and be demure. Even if your Gran is expecting it. Then Conrad, handsome and charming, from a clan across the Waste, comes to New Haven to seal alliance between their two families. The sparks fly immediately. Conrad is smart, dominant, and downright gorgeous. Yet as Ruby gets to know him more, she starts to realize something’s… off. Then, the murders start. A killer stalks the city streets, and just when Ruby starts to suspect the unimaginable, she becomes the next target. Now Ruby\u2019s about to find out that Conrad\u2019s secrets go deeper than she ever could have guessed – and it\u2019s up to Ruby to save her Gran, her clan, and maybe even herself… Review:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[447,440,9,6,441],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-kin","tag-lili-st-crow","tag-older-reviews","tag-reviews","tag-tales-of-beauty-and-madness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nby Lili St. Crow<\/p>\n