Lee, Victoria

Recommend to listeners who are looking for a realistic and complicated love story.

The teacher-student trope gets an unusually thoughtful treatment in YA fantasy writer Lee’s (A Lesson in Vengeance) first adult romance, which offers a more serious look at the decision to care for another person and the challenging journey of learning how to relate to one’s past.

Adults and older teens who appreciate stories with close ties among magic, science, and political machinations will find this first novel appealing.