This book was wonderful with a fun group of likable main characters, a fascinating yet easy-to-understand historical urban fantasy world, and an exciting heist! Faizal’s writing is gripping, I felt very immersed in the world and the characters and their motivations. At times the language was a little too flowery, especially the dialogue, but other than that everything was well written.
I loved the take on the world that Faizal has built; there were brief mentions of her other series but you don’t have to have read them to understand what was happening in this book. There are also vampires in this one but it felt very different from other vampire novels, which I appreciated!
I found the heist to be a little bit slow, so this gets a 4.5 from me. But there’s a fun twist at the end and this is going to be a series that I'll be following!
This is like a better-written but less intense Gilded Wolves, so take that as you will!
🌈 Queer rep: no queer characters are mentioned, but there’s a brief moment where a man hits on one of the main male characters and it’s seen as normal. So maybe some room for queer characters going forward, but none in this book.
I loved the take on the world that Faizal has built; there were brief mentions of her other series but you don’t have to have read them to understand what was happening in this book. There are also vampires in this one but it felt very different from other vampire novels, which I appreciated!
I found the heist to be a little bit slow, so this gets a 4.5 from me. But there’s a fun twist at the end and this is going to be a series that I'll be following!
This is like a better-written but less intense Gilded Wolves, so take that as you will!
🌈 Queer rep: no queer characters are mentioned, but there’s a brief moment where a man hits on one of the main male characters and it’s seen as normal. So maybe some room for queer characters going forward, but none in this book.