Sarah Ahiers

Complicated, frustrating, fantastic. The world got under my skin and I couldn't shake it. An anti-heroine with her own amoral morality, sleeping gods and mafia assassin families doing business in the dark. Reminds me strongly of the Gentleman Bastards series, but mostly that's because it's a thief's tale and you don't really know who's pulling the strings until the very end.

The only thing I could use less of is the main character's annoying tendency to brood on how everything's her fault, which admittedly is perfectly reasonable for a teen audience. Romance is an integral plot point in this one, but not the focus of the book.

Advanced Reader's Copy provided by Edelweiss.

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2.5/5 stars

This book had some fantstic potential but OMG it draaggggeeedddd
3 Months. 3 freaking months it actually took me to finish this book because I got so bored reading it and continually put it down for something better.

I enjoyed the start of this. The Mafia-esque families of assassins were intriguing; I love that sort of stuff. And I was hoping to enjoy the Italian/Spanish feel the world had but it fell a little short.
Overall, I just couldn't invest myself into this world or characters. I desperately wanted to love this, but when a book takes you that long to read you know it ain't gunna happen… (mehr)