I’m not crying, your crying! How did I not pick this up any sooner? Where the first book ‘Phantasma’ had Caraval vibes but darker, ‘Enchantra’ was a classic enemies-to-lovers novel and I loved every page of that book.

Trigger warnings in this book are; lots of blood, death, drugs, heavy alcohol use, light gore, mentions of self harm and explicit sexual content.

Genevieve is on a quest to find herself or, find some kindred spirit with whom she can talk about her childhood and how her mother only had eyes for Ophelia. Never feeling important enough. After all the revelations that have come to light in Phantasma and Ophelia happily married and finding her purpose in life… Genevieve feels lost.

After finding a picture of her mother with a man named Barrington Silver, a name she never heard once growing up but knowing her mother knew this man before she got her powers. She needed to know, maybe Barrington is also a Necromancer? Maybe he has at least two children also which would mean that one of them might have had the same upbringing and the same feelings Genevieve is dealing with. After a short correspondence she gets invited to Enchantra but has a deadline in which she has to arrive.

When staying in Rome she gets the feeling someone has put a Hex on here. Once there are hundreds of crows swarming in her presence she knows for sure. She has to pack up and get to Enchantra in a hasty manner. When a carriage drops her of and there’s only a gate to see and nothing but wasteland beyond. There was something in the letter about Devilberries. Maybe if she eats them, she’ll be able to see beyond the magical veil.

When she finally arrives at the front door and a very handsome man with the oddest eye color opens the door but tells her to leave. She keeps trying, but he keeps telling her to scatter. Little did he know she was a spectre, being able to just walk through the front door and in to the house. That’s when everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. Barrington isn’t a necromancer but a familiar, tied to a devil with a lot of power. Trying to save his wife from the ‘crimson rot’ he made a bargain with said devil but didn’t read the fine print. With him thinking his wife will be cured and his children having to participate in something called ‘the hunt’ once, he actually doomed his children in having to play this game every year to give his wife a fix that gives her a year of reprieve from the decease.

Arriving the night before the hunt is to begin, the house is on lockdown, she can’t leave but also can’t participate because she isn’t one of the family, which is about to change. In order to participate and survive the night, she has to marry Rowin, the brute that opened the door.

The hunt is a spectacle, one that is broadcasted through all of hell, how? There are endless amounts of mirrors in the house, every room, the hallways even the garden! The hunt ends when all but one remains alive, the one that wins the hunt gets to stay in the mortal world until the next hunt while the rest have to stay in Knoxium, the house of the mastermind behind the hunt called Knox.

I’ve devoured this book, I couldn’t get enough and I’m kind of sad it’s finished because I really loved reading this. It’s so dark but still humorous sometimes and the way the story came together, I just can’t!

I’m giving this a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars to!