no one is more disappointed in this rating than me. a historical fiction book and a fantasy book AND a heist book sounded like the perfect book for me. WRONG! this book is not historical fiction. yes, it does have a historical setting, but the characters are not historical. the main characters feel like modern people randomly thrown into a historical setting. you can’t just write modern feeling characters and slap them into a historical setting and call it done. that is just sloppy world building. why spend all this time researching the time period to make it historically accurate to then to not make your characters match?? just go make up your own world if you’re going to pull bullshit like this! don’t play fucking games with me.