A well-detailed, well-described, and elaborate fantasy setting with dark prose, beautiful and vivid descriptions of characters, and meticulous and immersive world-building.

Ayòbámi Adébáyọ̀ commands the attention of her audience with all the imperiousness of an aged matriarch thrilling her offspring by moonlight.

Urban Fantasy has a new voice, a new face. And it is here, in the very pages of a book that depicts a society very much like ours.

The antiheroes make you root for them! Their gritty, dark deeds blend with their odd but righteous sense of justice.

I can confidently say that the Stormlight Archive’s magic system is the best I’ve ever seen in Fantasy Fiction.

I commend the willingness to use far more original cultural elements than in book one. It gives the book a semblance of originality, which I greatly appreciate

… the author probably outdid himself this time. His much-lauded magic system is on show here once again, as it was in Foundryside and Divine Cities

The comradeship and romance in this book were well executed, and I was pleased to see the fight scenes and the magic system well-depicted.

Like the first book, the writing is fluid and contains meticulously detailed world-building, characterizations, and an extremely gripping plot. 

While reading, you’ll see life inside Promise Prep through their eyes, drawing open the shiny curtain of perfection Principal Moore has put up

Here, a young man throws everything about himself up to the world, and I mean everything; the good, the bad, the ugly, and the very ugly

It was clear that sons were currency, and only those blessed with them would be supported and listened to.