5★ 1.5🌶 In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy. I think this book broke me. In all the good ways that a book can break you. This was phenomenal and I'm legitimately in a book slump now. This story was very interesting; very different from other fantasy stories out there now. The Sirens in this were very unique. I also really liked the magic system in this. The characters who had power by in large had it from lineage because they were blood descendants of the gods. The gods being flesh and blood and living very lengthy lives. There was spell magic as well, but it was not common and took a great price from the user. There are blood bonds and undead creatures beneath the sea. I was intrigued with the narrative right from the beginning in this one. This was a seriously slow slow-burn. The tension in this was thick and nearly palpable. There was spice but it was sparse and hard won at the 73% p...