this book is...fine. its not a standout, its not horrible boring; its simply fine. i think, overall, it suffered from characters with backstories that werent explored, personalities that were more or less flat, and an environment that wasnt used as well as it could have been; i literally forgot it took place in the 1920's for most of it because it wasnt very immersive :/ i also dont think the magic was used as well as it could have been; everything felt secondary to the plot which, itself, wasnt as good as it should have been. this book could have been so much better, which is really unfortunate :(
oh, and one thing that just struck me as weird is the way the author described sams body verged on being 'omg uwu hes chubby and soft uwu' which is something that annoys me personally.