A review by emberbrie
Winter by Audrey Grey

4.0

Spoiler-free Review:
This book follows Summer as she is sentenced to attend Evermore Academy for four years. This is a fae series with the classic division of fae courts. It has some popular tropes like "Mates", and "Enemies to Lovers". Evermore Academy is comprised of Evermore (fae) who are there to master their abilities, and humans who are training to be the Shadow Warrior protectors of the Evermore. There is a selection at the start of school where every Shadow Warrior is claimed by an Evermore. Enter the Winter Prince, who does not share his name with anyone because names hold power in this society. He is the heir to the Winter court and is attempting to claim Summer as his Shadow Warrior.

Each book in this series covers a year of school at this academy. They are also all named after a season because seasons take a full year to pass in this world, not three months like in reality.

There are great friendship and mentor dynamics in this book. The romance and soulmate-esqe themes were also really good. This series reminded me a lot of Vampire Academy and ACOTAR. I do love that Summer is a fairly empowered character in general and how she handles situations. This book set up really great groundwork for the rest of the series.