Many thanks to Netgalley and Holiday House / Peachtree / Pixel+Ink for providing me with a free copy of this books in exchange for an honest review!

This book was just... Stunning. The prose was wonderful; it flowed so beautifully and painted a gorgeous picture of this book for the reader. The way the characters and environments were described, succinctly yet in such a lovely way made this an incredibly refreshing book to read overall. The worldbuilding was so intriguing, and the author did a wonderful job of introducing you to the world within the limitations of the style they chose.

The only thing I can nitpick about this book is that I want more; more time with the characters, more time in the underworld the author created and just more time spent in the novel itself, but I think that this would prove an almost-insurmountable task. It would likely take away from the stylistic choices made to make this novel whole, and overall would probably work to its detriment, so I can't really call it a criticism at all. As much as I would have loved to spend more time with these characters, I think it is more a compliment to the author that I became so connected to them in such a short time. Even the side characters were endearing and the antagonist was quite obvious to me, but I think that was also intentional; even Andres had his suspicions quite early on.

Overall, this was a wonderful read that will absolutely stay with me, and will certainly be reread and analysed again in the future.