I had really high expectations of this book so that was probably unfair of me. I have only read book 1 of City of Brass and although I throughly enjoyed it, I wasn’t obsessed enough to finish the series (yet, I will one day), so I don’t know why I expected so much of this book, but alas.
I LOVED the age of the characters, it was refreshing and fun. I loved the non-western setting, the pirates, the mythology and even the banter, but I felt the pace was too slow and having Amina narrate the story the stakes didn’t feel very high, I knew she would be ok and I didn’t connect with any character enough to worry about their future, so I feel that if I had more time to make a connection with them this would have been a five stars, but it wasn’t the case.
Still fun, full of rep, and well written, and I’ll probably read the sequel, but it missed the mark for me.