4.5⭐️3🌶️

Adult Fantasy
Thief FMC
Oppressed kingdom
Secret Magic
Imprisonment
Fae
Gods
Mythical creatures
Found family
Mates
Forced proximity
Morally grey MMC


If you like a tropey, spicy, romantasy read, this is for you! 

The writing was decently engaging. It was an easy book to read. Maybe things were familiar because the fae plot has just been over done, at this point. But if you don’t mind it, the FMC’s magic is pretty unique for a fae based book. I still enjoyed it. Did I think of ACOTAR, FBAA and a little Serpent and the wings of night? Yup. Did I care? Not really. There was enough differences that I just let it breathe. I’m sure things will find their own way in the next book. 

The characters are your basic human/fae pairing. He’s old, she’s fragile. Bla bla bla. There is insta-attraction, insta-friendships. I wish the friendship had been more organic… instead it felt like she was just added into a found family that we don’t have much context about.  But there was a lot of plot going on, so hopefully that will be fixed in the next book.

I think I preferred the first setting to the second or third. I want more of the wheel spoke city. I’m assuming with the loose ties there, we will go back. But we are pretty far from it right now.

There were some inconsistencies… like her mom works at a library underground with books, which are hard to find in her section… but then she is a prostitute? I’m not sure how those two ends meet. And that’s a small one. 

I liked the ending. I’m invested! It was a very bingeable read.