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The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers
3.5
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Amazing how much reading you can get through on Yom tov when your kid refuses to go to shul for hakafot. 

Laini Taylor is definitely a good comp for this book - especially her own earlier work. Summers does a nice job with playing out the magical world and the movement through it, although sometimes this book feels a bit short on logistics and long on the wanting. 
It was good and also the most forgettable of all the books I read this weekend. Which is totally fine, not every book needs to live with you forever and I absolutely enjoyed my time with this one. But it definitely ended when it ended.