The cover of this book is amazing! Golden letters standing out on a green background.. I'm totally in love.
This was one of those times where I went to a bookstore with no clue what I wanted to get or what I was looking for. I have to say I'm glad I did.
So I might have judged a book by it's cover but it's just so awesome!!! It was slightly more expensive than other books I've read recently but still nothing exaggerated.
When I started reading this book, I felt so confused.. GC has made this amazingly beautiful universe, but it's so complicated. Maybe it's because she doesn't explain a great deal of it or maybe it's because it's just simply that hard to get. Or I'm just stupid. All of these are valid possibilities.
I think it took untill Chapter 10 for me to fully get it and finally allow me to get fully into the story.
The one thing that bummed me out the most with this book is that there is no chemestry at all. I don't specifically mean between characters (although, yes, this lacked aswell) but between Irene and me, Kai or me and even Mr. Vale and me.. I just don't feel anything! They could be dieing, rotting in sewers for all I care and I wouldn't feel a thing. Several times while reading this book I thought that maybe I should be feeling my heart pound or my palms break a sweat.. But nothing! I feel no empathy for any of them. (This is actually really sad because I'm someone who cries everytime someone dies in a book I'm reading, or laughs every time a joke has been made..)
I would've liked to have more info about the exact time setting, we can only guess by the little info we get and I would have preferred there to be more about all the different species. I felt like it was all taken so for granted that they were in this world while for the reader it isn't. For the reader it's something special.
I have the feeling that this book is more of a prologue or something.. That more will happen in the next book? I hope so! Because all in all this book wasn't bad..
I absolutely love the universe GC has created, I love how easy to read this book was (confusing parts aside, I didn't put the book down untill it was finished and I didn't notice time passing), I love the setting of the book.. Old London with tweaks of Magic and Technology and there was a large variety of Characters (Dragons, Fae, Werewolves, Vampires, Librarians, Detectives,...)
Cover: 2
Price: 1.5
Story: 1
Characters: 1
Overall: 1.5
The picture of the cover doesn't really show it well but all the yellow bits are actually gold and like if you move your finger over it, you can feel the letters and drawings).
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