Bitter Medicine

4.5 stars, only for a somewhat flat, mustache twirling villain. I loved this book, I gobbled up the audio in a day! I guess at the end of the day this could be classified as a fantasy romance, but I thought the magic system was really cool and the book is a unique meshing of Eastern and Western magic and lore (imagine a place where vampires, fox spirits, elves, sphinxes, and much more are all live together with humans). I was apprehensive about going into this because the cover signaled it would be a romance (which I am not feeling right now), but I liked it A LOT, even the romance. Dual perspective POV and I suspect that at the least fans of Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke & Bone will like this one.