As a major fan of Agyemang, this new foray is so exciting! I love the setting and vibes of Divine Oaths so much and was thrilled to be able to read it so early! Keep reading this book review of Divine Oaths for my full thoughts.
Summary
Westfield University was supposed to be Sianna Adu’s dream school. But just when she’s on the cusp of attending the elite academic institution hidden in Virginia’s swampland, an unexpected tragedy changes everything. In one day, Sianna loses her family and gains an extraordinary power—the ability to see lifelines and witness other people’s pasts and futures.
With all she’s lost, Sianna puts her college dreams on pause and spends her days navigating dead-end jobs and a not-so-secret crush on her coworker. But when Kasem Saint James, the undeniably handsome heir of Westfield, approaches her with a strange request, the future Sianna has long deferred becomes a dangerous new reality. Worried that her powers are now tied to Kasem, she has no choice. Fate has called her to Westfield.
At an academy where secret societies abound, connections are everything, and an ominous history—stretching back centuries—determines the future, Sianna and Kasem must piece together the past to undo a curse that binds them to each other.
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
Divine Oaths is a roller coaster of emotions. It’s this fierce burning inferno of rage and revenge, there’s this passionate swooning, and a thrumming action and mystery story. The world building is compelling and sweeps you up into this dark academia world of betrayal and power. Divine Oaths builds like a wave and it soon pulls you under. There’s something deeply wrong and the feeling in the pit of your stomach only widens until it swallows everyone up. Those epic stories about family drama and power games which sweeps all of us up definitely rings true. There’s this rot amongst the decadent hallways, the locked doors and glances.
The beginning of Divine Oaths sets up this epic action plot. Sianna is thrown into this plot and this institution headfirst as she has to figure out what happened and how to unravel this mystery. Where is her own role in this and how much of ourselves will we give up to save someone? We are asked who’s really on her side in this power struggle. And it becomes a story about knowing that unless we see the true history of something, we will always be a victim of it. The secrets tear us apart. The ending certainly rushes us to a whirlwind of the bonds of family which get twisted up with love, resentment and power.
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