Cillian

I’m glad that the author is fully upfront about how full of shit this guy is.

Set in a fantasy world with society and technology roughly comparable to 1700s England, but with sorcery and alchemy, and also the fae mythos.

While it does have aspects of Wells’ writing that I love, this is her first book and kind of shows. Exposition and world building wasn’t very elegant so it was difficult to keep track of some of the characters and factions. Kade’s personality was (I think) meant to reflect the “capricious nature” of her fae mother but it came across much more like that of a very immature woman, which made me not a fan of the relationship that developed between her and an older man.

Entertaining if a little cliché.

Like all good gothic stories, sometimes the mysteries are a little more exciting than the answers. Great book though.

”The weaver of the tablet was Enheduana. My king! Something has been born which had not been born before.”