This was my first dive into Lyndsay Faye and I liked it a lot. Timothy does tend to be melodramatic in his first person narrative but I was so engaged with the story - with the narrator as I read this as an audiobook - that I didn't even care. The history of New York was very apparent throughout the story and it made me yearn for more stories in this time period. Have already picked up the second in the series and will be binging that in the coming days.