This was a great read! And I cannot wait for more!

+ The series went a way I didn't expect
+ Grown ass MC who isn't 150% snark and sarcasm
+ A unique urban fantasy world (and with over 800 books read this is rare for me)


For a lot of people, a negative is sex. This book got it.
I've read some of the paranormal romance books out there that is 80% just pure erotica and honestly it's too much for me. Several chapters describing one sex scene? It's too much for me. This is partly why I loved this book here, it has sex, and it isn't just the fade-to-black type either, it's descriptive alright. But it is at top a few pages, and not 10-20 as some books do. It wasn't as.. crude as some of the paranormal romance out there.

This was a grown ass MC who sometimes had grown ass sex, and as someone who is turning 30 next month I can relate to that. It also isn't just a pagefiller, there are story relevance here that I cannot get into because they're major spoilers.

I really loved the universe, I loved that I didn't instantly know what someone could do or their limitations by simply hearing their name. I mean... sure there are dozens if not hundreds of variations on how people write the fae, or werewolves or vampires, but most of it.. it's pretty cliche. Hey! I love urban fantasy, I ain't dissing it. It just gets.. familiar.

In this universe, it started all the way back when god created the world. First there was light, and then there was fire, and then there was humans made out of clay.
Light. Fire. Earth.
Angels. Djinn. Humans.
From what I can tell most of the supernatural entities walking around earth in this book are djinn. Which meant everyone I met was new, unique, and did different things.
Now, they had djinn types, and one djinn type was kind of like a werewolf so there are similarities here. But I don't know very much about the djinn lore, where it originated from (unlike fae lore which is hugely overdone) so when these djinn names got tossed around I had no clue what to expect and that was.. fucking exhilarating.

Also, minor spoiler, there was mention of vampires and even ghouls in the book. And in book 2 we even encounter one of them, and I was.. so surprised. because even that was twisted into something unique and refreshing.

Devin Hanson needs to write more books. Needs to write more female perspectives. I haven't tried his other series but I was SO disappointed when I saw it was a male MC as I usually prefer the female ones. Like for me to enjoy a male MC the books have to be top quality tier. And this halfblood legacy book 1 and 2 was so good that I will be trying out his male perspective books.

READ THIS! It's almost a must unless the small amount of erotica displayed is a huge turnoff (which I know is true for some urban fantasy fans)