Very surprising! :)

Loved the way JA Andrews wrote this book and the narrating by Kate Reading was excellent!
The plot was very surprising and the way the book was written kept me on my toes, wanting to hear more! I really hope the second book comes out soon! Can't wait! :)

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Amazing characters, epic world, brilliantly narrat

What an amazing ride of a story.

I was hooked right from the start, because I simply love the capable, but yet far from perfect main character. Seeing a young woman go her way, and do all she can to keep her younger sisters save, and inadvertently landing in the middle of a big adventure is something I sadly rarely see without a major romance factor in the book. Sable however is way too busy with staying save, alive and kicking, to be pining after men, and there is only the tiniest ever hint of some possible romance, and even that late in the book. For that alone I'd like to give 5* and some extra!

In accordance to this, one of the things I love about Andrews' writing is that she writes for an adult audience, with adult themes and deep characters, but she doesn't have overly graphic violence on the page. There is death (actually quite some in this book!) and it isn't glossed over. But instead of focussing on "what inner organs falls out of a body in what way", it focuses on the repercussions, and how it affects the world and characters. How they deal with it, and get on with things. While I do like to read grimdark with gore aplenty, I definitely enjoy this style of books as a breather between a all the bloodbaths, and I find them rather rarely. Books are often either gorey, or "cute" and avoiding problematic topics all around. Sullivan's Riyria is the best comparison I can think of.

Aside from the main character, I also enjoyed all the side characters, who grew fully into their skin throughout the story and felt unique and real to me to a point that made me sad to leave them at the end of the story. There were some nice twists along the way that I really didn't see coming, but in hindsight they felt very organic and realistic...

The story itself also progresses a lot. While it isn't like any of these books, it still reminded me of Lies of Locke Lamora first, with a city full of gangs, then of Rothfuss while we travel with a troupe of actors, and later we get to see there's a way bigger problem showing just beyond the horizon, that sets sequels up nicely.

It ends not so much on a cliffhanger, but at a point where you so dearly want to read the next part, because you get a glimpse of what's up next, and I can't wait to read more. There's a whole new ... collaboration, if not voluntary, coming up, and I can't wait to see that play out!

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