shadowbooker's reviews
677 reviews

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.

As someone who didn’t know too much about Psyche and Eros, I really enjoyed this book. I wish it had some more time to develop the romance and give us cozy times instead of straight out telling us the Greek Myth, so I can see people who are familiar with the story not being too drawn by this book, but since I didn’t I still really enjoyed it and loved the dual POV.