I think I may have read too much YA recently so I'm a bit sick of some of the familiar tropes which, given that this is a YA book, it had some of. And it does a thing that, as I get older, I find less and less compelling just because I find it a harder sell.

I really have issues with ancient being in love with teenage girl...I'm not sure if including reincarnation helps, although I also think Lanie Taylor did it very well and so that's kinda my bar. I realize this does not work well with my utter beauty and the beast obsession, but "very well, I contradict myself".

I really liked how unpredictable much of this book felt; I definitely expected the story to go in one direction and it didn't. But I also wanted more time spent discussing the world and portraying it because I am always the "how does this world work?!" person and I just want more about it. (I'm really glad to see the way Khorana is using the mythology, but in the same way that I always want people to work out their understanding of the Fae, I want something similar with the vetala.)