First I want to thank the publisher and Net Galley for giving me access to this e-arc for a review. 
There was a lot that I did enjoy about this despite the middling rating. The middling rating might have ended up being a timing issue with when I read it. So to be fair I want to focus my review on the things I liked about it. I enjoyed the world and the writing style... and because of this I will for sure be giving this author another read with a different title. The writing is beautiful and I really did enjoy the magic and the banter between some of the characters. I think I will come back around and try reading this again at a different time as I did like the vivid story telling. However, it did feel a little like I was reading Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries... which I did not enjoy at all. This is why the timing might be the issue as I read Emily Wilde's not very long ago and maybe if there had been more time between it would have been better for me.