Witches Steeped in Gold

I really wanted to love this book. Samantha Shannon raved about it and I typically like her recommendations however I couldn't get into this book. The characters were flat and you are shoved into this new world with limited background. I'm a huge fan of extensive world-building and I do not mind info-dumping to get there either. This book had basically no world-building and we are left scrambling trying to figure out what is going on and who the characters all.

And this is a weird thing but I'm all about strong female characters but I got over 100 pages into this book and there were basically no male characters in this book. Yes, they mention fathers but I do not find it realistic at all to completely remove male characters from your book.

Hopefully, others are able to get into and love this book, but I was not one of them.