Blood Oath - an ARC Book Review

December 20, 2025

Blood Oath - an ARC Book Review

**Thank you to Lenena Ronheer and Booksprout for providing me with an e-ARC copy in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.**

✨️ Book Title: The Moonlit Pact: The Silver Hollows Chronicles - Book #1
✨️ Author: Lenena Ronheer
✨️ Genre: Fantasy
✨️ Tropes: Shifter/werewolf, “chosen one” FMC, power-hungry villain/dark lord

⭐️ Star Rating: 2.75 / 5 stars
🌶 Spice Level: 0 / 5 peppers (no spice/intimacy at all)
⚠️ Trigger Warnings: death, violence, dark & supernatural demons, cult-like group/behaviours

📅 Release Date: November 28, 2025

“I take it this isn’t a social visit?” he said, setting his book aside. “Not unless you consider ritualistic murder a casual topic of conversation,” Ronan muttered.

In the second instalment of The Silver Hollows Chronicles, Isla Crowley and her team are thrown back into the deep end of fighting the dark supernatural forces threatening to shred their lives apart. As they try to stick together and solve the case, will the team be able to handle all that is thrown their way? Or will the dark corrode what's left of the light?

**Spoilers Ahead**

Since Blood Oath is the second book in The Silver Hollows Chronicles, there may be spoilers from book one, The Moonlit Pact, throughout this review
With that said, no spoilers for Blood Oath are revealed

Staying true to the pacing set in book one (The Moonlit Pact), Blood Oath throws the readers right back to where we left off last, following Isla, Camilla, Ronan, and Elias as they continue to work against the dark forces threatening their lives. Following their latest battle at Seabright, the team is not only trying to solve the case in front of them, but they are now faced with also navigating the fallout of the Seabright battle.

While Blood Oath successfully followed in its predecessors' footsteps by maintaining a fast and action-packed pace, it also followed suit in being just as rushed. I was hoping Blood Oath would bring more clarity to the storyline and further support the world-building; however, with such a rushed pace, these details once again fell through the cracks. With that being said, Lenena Ronheer also brings back the vivid imagery I enjoyed from The Moonlit Pact. Unfortunately, this also left me wondering why she hadn’t utilized more of this fantastic imagery throughout the novel.

Especially in a series, one thing I really look for is character development. I love seeing the growth of each character from the beginning to the end. While readers can expect to see major changes in Isla throughout the series, I was pleasantly surprised by Camilla’s character in this book. Becoming my favourite character in the series thus far, she really infused more humour and personality into the storyline. Right from the beginning, her commentary was helpful to pulling me into the magic of the storyline, while also bringing the team - and readers - back to the reality of the situation at hand. In comparison to her character in book one, this was a breath of fresh air.

For those looking to continue the adventure started in The Moonlit Pact, Blood Oath packs a punch with the pace, some of the imagery, and some of the character development sprinkled throughout. Just like the first book in the series, Blood Oath is a good book to pick up for fans of a short but fast-paced fantasy read. It definitely makes for a good palate cleanser between the emotionally damaging books many of us routinely indulge in.