I’m not sure where to begin with this one 🙈 
I’ve read it, I finished it and I’m still not entirely sure what went on or why.  Despite my complete and utter confusion, there were some good moments about it, so let’s start there! 😆

The Gilded Wolves is about a group of friends who go on a mission to find something that will help reinstate the inheritance of the main character, Severin. This band of merry men is giving #SixofCrows vibes, which I immediately loved. I really enjoyed the characters and their back stories which were wonderfully built up, fleshed out in order to keep me invested in their various conflicts. There is a wonderful romance between the Kaz and Inej characters, Severin and Laila, but where the characters started to have issue was that they were a lot more adult than the book seem to intend. These characters were clearly written to be adult, but I’m assuming on the part of the publisher, the writer was asked to age them down which was at an immediate conflict with the language, style and overall mission of the plot

Now, the plot. I knew what was going on but at the same time had no idea what was happening. While very clever and intuitive, much of it felt a little forced and overly excessive to actually be considered fun. I struggled with a lot of the history force fed down my throat simply because it made no sense to me how teenagers would know any of this. It didn’t make sense for them to be behaving this way and it kept pushing me put of the experience. 

I love the LGBTQ and ND rep through Enrique, Hypnos and Zofia respectively. I am here for the characters above all and in true cliffhanger fashion, that ending has me wanting to continue with book 2 even if it remains confusing. 

Despite my reservations, i do recommend this book. The writing is good and the author has clearly put in the appropriate research and i respect that at the very least.