Lawrence manages to take a trope of novels across the ages (two young lovers who society dictates cannot be together) but manages to add in layers of suspicion, magic and conspiracies to create an entirely new concept. Granted it’s not the most imaginative of plotlines, but if you go into this novel with an open mind you might find yourself pleasantly surprised. Slowly the plot around her begins to unravel and she discovers a lot more about her city, and her family, than she ever meant to. She discovers that she is engaged to a member of the rival family of Fosters, but upon meeting Thomas feels nothing but slight contempt, and still struggles to remember anything about the man. We first meet Aria Rose as she awakens from a stupor - apparently brought on by an overdose, and resulting in some pretty severe memory loss. I believe that the description of Mystic City actually does the book an injustice – you immediately believe it is going to be a basic retelling of Romeo and Juliet, but with a bit more magic and modernism thrown in, whereas the finished product is actually quite far from this. The choices she makes can save or doom the city - including herself.
Only when Aria meets Hunter, a gorgeous rebel mystic from the Depths, does she start to have glimmers of recollection - and to understand that he holds the key to unlocking her past. And she can't conceive why her parents would have agreed to unite with the Fosters in the first place. But Aria doesn't remember falling in love with Thomas in fact, she wakes one day with huge gaps in her memory. The union of the two will end the generations-long political feud - and unite all those living in the Aeries, the privileged upper reaches of the city, against the banished mystics who dwell below in the Depths.
Aria Rose, youngest scion of one of Mystic City's two ruling rival families, finds herself betrothed to Thomas Foster, the son of her parents' sworn enemies.
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