This was the first book from my “birthday book suggestions” list over on Bluesky. I liked it. A young adult novel of a magical world in which cursing is real and cursers are punished but sometimes things get out of hand. A pair of teenagers tries to help the cursed but then realizes the plight of the cursers is not quite what they expected. A lot of “who can you trust” and “how do you handle complicated morality” in this one. If you like magical tales, you’ll like it.