Thank you again to @DelReyUK for this copy of The Calamities by Chuck Wendig, I’m so grateful! Unfortunately due to life getting in the way I wasn’t able to read & review this prior to release on the 18th but once I started… couldn’t put it down! Very easy 5 star and I highly recommend! As always with a new fantasy series the start is a bit slower as we get some background, but once it started it was fast paced and full of mystery that kept me reading. A bit about the book.. The Calamities is a dark fantasy, featuring occult magic, demons, bargains and moral ambiguity. “Mourning Mayne knows he’ll one day bear the duty of managing his family’s vast empire of wealth and power. But the feckless Mourning has always struggled to accept this legacy of cruelty, domination, and exploitation . . . and something even darker. Because the Maynes are no ordinary family: Hidden in our world are the fiends―half-human, half-demon, and possessed of a dark magic born from buying human souls―and the Maynes are one of the oldest and most influential fiendish families. But when Mourning’s estranged father, the formidable and terrifying Hadrian Mayne, demands that Mourning return to the fold, he has to decide whether to accept his legacy and embrace his role in the family or to forge his own destiny, and with it, change the course of the world. Because along the way home, he will meet Key, a black-market seller of human souls, and Quinn, an artist who may hold the dark truth behind the fate of the fiends. Alone, they have all struggled with the darkness of their natures. Together, they might find a path out of the shadows.” Available now! - @chloemichelle106