From Goodreads: “Love in my world usually ended up with someone hearing ‘I smite thee ‘ as she was cursed to be some lame flower for the rest of her life.” For three years, Alexandria has lived among mortals–pretending to be like them and trying to forget the duty she’d been trained to fulfill as a child of a mortal and a demigod. At seventeen, she’s pretty much accepted that she’s a freak by mortal standards… and that she’ll never be prepared for that duty. According to her mother, that’s a good thing. But as every descendant of the gods knows, Fate has a way of rearing her ugly head. A horrifying attack forces Alex to flee Miami and try to find her way back to the very place her mother had warned her she should never return-the Covenant. Every step that brings her closer to safety is one more step toward death… because she’s being hunted by the very creatures she’d once trained to kill. The daimons have found her.

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On the run for the past three years, unaware of the reason her mother forced her to flee the Covenant, Alex once again finds herself running, this time to save her life, and I found myself captivated from the very beginning of this novella.  The daimons were a very scary entity that provoked my curiosity, as did the story behind Alex’s flight from the Covenant, and although short, I learned a lot of information that really piqued my interest.  The novella itself is very well written, and if that’s any indication of what’s to come in the first full novel in the series, Half-Blood, then I am all in.  Not only is the story enticing, but Alex also seems like a very down to earth character, and I can’t wait to get to know her better and learn more about her world.  Armentrout has done a fabulous job pulling me into the story and this novella really blew me away.  Five stars.

I purchased this novella from Amazon.