actually this was such a good novella, I read the bone season and enjoyed it but had some issues and questions so I wanted to pick up this book before I was going to read the second one. and wow I liked this more than book one by itself. it's fast paced, we get so much more back story of the story before the the bone season. I love the characters so much, this gave me found family vibes and I got shadow hunters vibes from it. even for a novella it had such a good plot. I now understand more of the world building and made me really exited for the next book.