A classic romantasy of the chosen girl, enemies to lovers, and destiny.
In a world where the trees are consuming everything, and the shepherding spirits are lost, Ferris enters the forest in the last great hunt to reunite the thirteen spirits, bring peace to the lands once more, and gain a boon from the Great Oak. But the forest is vicious and tries to eat everyone alive, and the hunters will stop at nothing to gain the boon for themselves.
In this cutthroat world, we find the timid, bookish, but quite dextrous Ferris trying to navigate capturing the spirits and winning the boon as she falls upon the fae warrior Hendrix who imprisons her. In captivity they grow a depressingly unhealthy relationship of "he's a monster, but he's hot", and "if she knows what kind of monster I am, she will hate me, but she's so alluring" that I at some points feared were veering off into an abusive relationship, but fortunately kept from that.
The redeeming factor of the book was that the plot of the Great Oak and the spirits, and how they fit together by slowly revealing more pieces of the puzzle as to why the spirits are lost and the Great Oak is hurting, was interesting enough to keep going, but the characters and their development, and most of all the dynamic between Ferris and Hendrix was mostly bland, or Hollow, if you will, once it passed from the hating each other or themselves.
All in all, it was passable as a story with few mildly spicy scenes, but I'll likely abandon the series from here on out.