Soulswift

  By: Megan Bannen 

Location: FIC BAN

Genre: Fantasy, Sci Fi with some Romance

The cover!!! Will it get better than this in 2022

A dark, epic fantasy about a girl who must rethink everything she believes after she is betrayed and hunted by the religion that raised her--from Megan Bannen, author of The Bird and the Blade. Perfect for fans of The Winner's Curse and The Girl of Fire and Thorns.

Gelya is a Vessel, a girl who channels the word of the One True God through song. Cloistered with the other Vessels of her faith, she believes--as all Ovinists do--that a saint imprisoned Elath the Great Demon centuries ago, saving humanity from earthly temptation.

When Gelya stumbles into a deadly cover-up by the Ovinists' military, she reluctantly teams up with Tavik, an enemy soldier, to survive. Tavik believes that Elath is actually a mother goddess who must be set free, but while he succeeds in opening Her prison, he inadvertently turns Gelya into Elath's unwilling human vessel.

Now the church that raised Gelya considers her a threat. In a race against the clock, she and Tavik must find a way to exorcise Elath's presence from her body. But will this release stop the countdown to the end of the world, or will it be the cause of the earth's destruction?

And as Tavik and Gelya grow closer, another question lingers between them: What will become of Gelya?

This review from Brightstar on Goodreads

Soulswift was a beautiful, lyrical, heart-wrenching story and I still need to recover from it. It's not everyone's cup of tea and you're either going to love it or not. Personally, I loved every single word. Despite religion being one of the main theme, it wasn't boring to read because Megan was able to write an unforgettable story with memorable characters. Gelya and Tavik are two different people, with two different beliefs and yet, they slowly came to understand and trust each other. And their slow-burn, enemies-to allies-to friends-to lovers relationship was so achingly beautiful that my heart still cries for them. This author knows how to make you suffer and even though I'm still picking up the broken pieces of my heart, I wouldn't change a thing. Because some stories don't need perfect endings to be memorable. Some stories are significant because of the marks they leave inside you.