The Book of Eternity (The Copper Moon Series)

5 Star Review

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Editorial Book Review:

By DV Rothman

Jacqueline Pennewill's parents called her the Happy Wanderer because she couldn't stop exploring the moment she learned to walk. That restless, curious energy is exactly what you feel on every page of this debut. The Book of Eternity doesn't just pull you into a world. It wanders into one with you, and the wandering feels genuinely adventurous rather than lost.

Grey arrives in Sleepy Key already broken. Her father is gone, the summer feels like exile, and she has no interest in discovering anything new. And then the Book of Eternity falls from the sky into her hands, and everything changes in the way only ancient curses can make things change, which is to say completely and without warning. Pennewill handles the transition from ordinary grief to supernatural chaos with a lightness of touch that keeps the story moving fast without making the emotional stakes feel rushed. You believe in Grey's pain before you believe in the angels, which is exactly the right order.

Zale visiting her balcony and quoting Romeo and Juliet while being careful not to touch her is the kind of detail that makes a forbidden romance feel genuinely enchanted rather than just angsty. The Copper Moon's rules, the fact that he can only make contact once a month under that specific light, give the attraction a beautiful, aching specificity. It's not just that they can't be together. It's the precise, timed impossibility of it that makes every near-moment feel electric.

What gives the book real depth beneath the angel mythology and the forbidden romance is the relationship between Grey and her twin brother, and the quiet devastation of a family learning to function around an absence. Pennewill clearly understands that the supernatural elements hit harder when the human ones have already done their work.

For readers who grew up loving angel fantasy and have been waiting for a new series that captures that same immersive, whimsical magic, this is very much the one.