Personally, there's a great deal I want to say about this book. What I'll say now is just a cursory review, but I'll probably write something more, and better, for my blog later. . . and then update this review here too. Let me say that this book has been sitting on my TBR pile for far too long, it was gifted to me by a friend and as much as I wanted to read it I just never felt the time was proper to pick it up, but now that I have I wish I'd done so sooner. It's an amazing, creative take on a setting and the characters are fascinating as is the plot of the story itself. I found myself floored many times while reading it, often having to pick my jaw up off the floor — so to speak — many times. The closer I got to the end, the more I found myself wanting more and now that it's done I almost want to re-read it again just to have more of this setting and these characters while also not wanting more cause the way it ended also feels so *perfect*.

Anyways, I strongly recommend this book. It's beautiful and hits you in the feels, and I love it a lot.