Remarkable Debut. This is an intriguing take on the repeated lives/ reincarnation trope that takes a spin I hadn't seen before, and is thus all the more interesting. Great read and great back story that could indeed set the author up as long as she wants to take this, ultimately I had to dock it a star for two reasons: First, the pacing is a bit spotty - by the time you're into Chapter 3, you're already 20% into a book with 30 chapters or so. Second, the cliffhanger ending. While I would normally give an author a chance to see what the next book brings before docking due to splitting one story into two books via a cliffhanger, it was both of these factors in combination that led to the drop and not one or the other, which individually I likely could not have justified. Very much recommended.