A fiery retelling of the legend of Morgan le Fay, which follows her childhood, adolescence, education, tumultuous marriage, and her role in the establishment in Arthur's court. 

In one word, it is a book about suffering. Keetch draws from familiar ground to create a healer type figure who struggles to find peace and purpose in a world where she is treated as property. Keetch's Morgan is courageous, brash, angry, and the story telling pulls readers into these headspaces with her. 

When she is harmed, you feel the snap of rage. When her expertise is stifled and dismissed, then forbidden, you experience the suffocation, the frustration of knowing what it is to be able yet forbidden from helping others. When she takes up defiance in her honesty and courage, you soar, and when trouble knocks on her door, you flinch. It is evocative.

Well-paced, movingly crafted--up to the very end, which felt sudden. There were a few plot threads that I had expected to be addressed and were not. Morgan's internality is teetering on a precipice of dark and light, and this feels more like the first entry in a duology or trilogy than a standalone.

Women's healthcare and agency is a thematic heartbeat underneath the story, and many readers might relate to Morgan's frustration that female bodies are so unstudied and unsupported by the medical field in comparison to male ones.

5 ⭐️ 5 ♥️ - I received this ARC from NetGalley. 

Let me start by saying that this reads more like a historical fiction than most fantasies I’ve read in the last couple of years, that’s not a bad thing but if you are expecting a full blown fantasy with a Sanderson esque magic system, this isn’t the book for you lol. 

This book was pure poetry, we follow Morgan from birth through events that are more often than not traumatic that shape her. The ending has me sobbing, I cannot recommend enough. 

“True power comes from freedom, and the ability to survive what befalls us.” He had sent the peregrine up again to wait on, though I saw now it was us who waited on her. “There’s nothing keeping her here other than the respect she’s been shown.” 

TW; sexual assault, domestic violence 

 I found this book on Audible and omg it was amazing! I was obsessed 😍 I really loved this story from Morgan's POV, and it was so interesting to see her story from when she was a child to when she's an adult. Loved the feminine rage. The characters were all beautifully written. I seriously could not stop listening to this story. I highly recommend it if you love a good Arthurian retelling.