Rating: 4
Steam: 2
PoV: single, 3rd person
Series: Natural Magic #2
Genre: paranormal romance, MM
Main tropes: mental health, forced proximity, shifters
What they didn’t tell you about loss was that it was a presence instead of an absence. You could feel it, constantly. It was active with memory. A stain, a smell, a word. Anything could take you back to a place which was painful to remember now. Suddenly, the dead would be everywhere.
All That Has Flown Beyond didn’t quite pack the same punch as the first book in the series, but it was still a stunning and complex story, full of magic and emotions!
I have to admit that I was confused at the start of the story, as there was very little information about what was going on and the consequences Kaiyo had to face. It got clearer along the way, but I initially felt as if I was missing something as things happened quickly, and I didn’t get to know the pack before Kaiyo got kicked out of it.
Losing his pack and what he thought was his future had some major impacts on Kaiyo’s mental health, and it got pretty dark for a while. Marina Vivancos’ wrote his heartbreak and depressive spiral really well, the emotions and struggles so vivid and realistic that my heart hurt while reading. I completely felt his loss and hopelessness, and I was in tears more than once. Luckily, Kaiyo had a support system and with help he got better and managed to sort of move on from the pack and his past.
Kaiyo had some fantastic character development here, and I loved to see him grow and heal, finding his path in helping others. It was also that path that led him back to his old pack ten years after being exiled, and back to the pack leader Ahmik. Their romance was slow, and I loved seeing them reconnect and get to know each other again after all those years. Getting Ahmik’s version of the past also helped to piece together events from the beginning of the book, and showed things in a bit of a different light as well.
All That Has Flown Beyond was a gorgeous and captivating read, and I love this world that Marina Vivancos has created with this series! The language was almost poetic and I loved how rich these two stories were, both with the language and how they were written, but also with the history, mythology and ties that these characters have to their ancestors and lands. They’re both magical and emotional reads that I highly recommend!
You don’t need to thank me. You might have exiled me, but my bones are still bound to this earth.
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