In the Nigerian-esque city of Kos, there are basically three types of people: sin-eaters who take people's sins and live with them so the sinner can walk free of guilt, mages who call the sin-beasts out of the sinner so the sin-beasts can be eaten, and people who need their sins taken away. Beasts Made of Night follows an extra-special sin-eater who is asked to become the personal sin-eater of the royal family, and gets wrapped up in a political conspiracy along the way.

Things I liked:
* Nigerian influences—I really enjoyed the Arabic words that were woven into the story, the traces of Islam in the religion of Kos, the foods and even the way that characters interacted (if you have hung out with Nigerians before, you will recognize a lot ;)
* The concept of sin, the weight of guilt, and how the society of Kos revolves around sin, purity, and dealing with both.

Things I didn't like:
* I'm still confused about the political conspiracy??? What is the motivation behind people who already have absolute power and wealth to want to change an-y-thing about that power structure??
* I could care less about all of the characters except for the nerdy mage girl. She was cute. Let's have this story told from her POV.
* The story was setting up the world for a very long time (I was patient; I thought it would pay off), lots of key details of the world are poorly explained or not explained at all (I was patient; I thought the story would answer my questions eventually), then suddenly the MC gets wrapped up into a political conspiracy, there is a lot of demon fighting, and the book ends. I guess the ending is a cliffhanger and there will be a sequel. The pacing is weird though, and I'm disappointed that I was so patient without being rewarded.

There was such a strong concept and start to the book, but the end appeared to be way less polished than the beginning. I got the feeling that this one was taken out of the oven a little too soon and maybe the editor and author were just sick of working on it.