Tyffany Hackett

Becky Moynihan

Book One of the Genesis Crystal Saga

Dawn Till Dusk

Chiara Vitale Zelaia

I received an e-arc of this book from the authors for an honest review.

Dawn till Dusk is the perfect read for lovers of grumpy fae, sassy shifters and an entertaining romance filled with angst and dazzling banter.
Urban fantasy is a tricky genre for me. Despite being closer to what is “normal”, I have a hard time processing magic alongside cell phones and bikes. But with this book, I was immediately drawn into the world, and I quickly clicked with its characters. I found myself relating to Tarik’s need to snap in order to deal with the anger bottled up inside him, just as I could relate to Reagan’s sass and her inner struggle between what was expected of her and what she thought was right.
Other than two amazing protagonists, this book also gave me a truly wicked villain. There were moments where my dragon-loving heart wanted to somewhat protect these dragon shifters, trying against reason to find a way to redeem them in the face of the world. No such luck, I’m afraid. These dragons are mean and we don’t like them, but we definitely appreciate a good villain! 

Co-authored books can be tricky. It’s hard to find the right balance between two distinct voices in order to create a seamless narration, but Becky and Tyffany won this bet! If I hadn’t know beforehand—having joined the Instagram cover reveal team—who was writing who, I never would have guessed! The writing was a well-crafted guide in the navigation of this story, and that helped the overall enjoyment all the more!

The only “flaw” was a somewhat slow middle that impacted the otherwise quick and high stakes pace of the plot, but there were many moments of relationship building between the protagonists in that part of the book that still made it enjoyable.

Now I’m left with the question: what comes next? All the plot twists and heart-thumping moments lead to a finale that leaves you begging for more! I cannot wait to see where this story is going!

Maria Elena Vitale Zelaia

When the opportunity to participate in the cover reveal and read the eARC of this book presented itself, I could not refuse. Being a long-time follower of Tyffany Hackett and having read her other series, The Thanatos Trilogy, and having heard great things about Becky Moynihan’s The Elite Trials on Instagram, I was immediately excited. I’m happy to say that this book did not disappoint! 

I know sometimes readers are hesitant to pick up a co-authored book, because not everyone can replicate the magic of Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman. Being part of a writing duo myself, I have no such hesitations, but if it can reassure some of the more doubtful readers, this co-authored project worked wonderfully. You cannot tell the difference between the chapters written by Tyffany and those written by Becky. Had I not known in advance who was who thanks to the email I received for the cover reveal details, I would have not been able to tell, and I say this as someone who has read one of the two authors. 

What I immediately loved about this story was the world and the characters. Especially the characters. Tarik, our male protagonist and fae of the story, is the kind of tormented, self-destructive soul that I can’t help but want to love and save. Reagan, our female lead and shapeshifter, is the spitfire character that I immediately want in my cadre of fictional friends. Together, the two have a sizzling chemistry, and the ship set off with full winds in its sails from the start. I needed them together, I angsted, I squealed and huffed in frustration when they did not give me what they wanted, which is what characters like doing, isn’t it? It’s sweet torture. The villain of this story, Mordecai, and his awful little minion and son, Alec, were spectacularly cruel. I hate them, but I love it when villains are Villains with the capital letter. 

This book immediately starts with a bang, and for a good part of the book, I was on the edge of my seat. There is a moment when things cool down a little, which is normal, but since I love fast-paced stories, it impacted my enjoyment of the book ever so slightly, which is why my rating isn’t a full five star. Yet. The ending was mind-blowing, and it has me itching to have the second immediately and learn what happens. It was brutal, it was shocking, it had a wonderful reveal I did not expect. 

I highly recommend this book if you love fantasy, fae and shifters, broody falls for sunshine trope and enemies-to-lovers.

Cristina Cicivelli 

4,5 ★

It's fate that brought this book to me, and I'm so grateful that it happened because Dawn Till Dusk turned out to be the kind of book I wanted to read: there are creatures with wings, the 'enemies to lovers' trope (and it was so well developed!!!! I really loved every single interaction between Tarik and Reagan, there are a lot of post-its to show it), an amazing female character that is strong and capable of defending herself (but also weak and frail when life tries to crush her) and just want to use her advantages to help others (I will never get tired of reading about characters rebelling again non-sense rules and ideas imposed by society), an equally amazing male character with a tormented past that prefer to be alone instead of losing the people he loves and that says sorry when he is being an alpha hole (!!!!!!!!!), a LOT of hurt/comfort scenes (characters comforting themselves with little touches is my greatest weakness).

Sometimes the pacing felt a little bit too rushed, but really, who cares? I enjoyed this story too much to not give it a good rating anyway. 
And for once there is no big cliffhanger that is going to make me die of madness until book 2!!! But I miss Tarik and Reagan all the same, can't wait for Fall of Night 🤧

Dawn Till Dusk Book One of the Genesis Crystal Saga

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