2020 Reading Challenge Prompt: A book whose title caught your attention.

Very interesting low-fantasy world; no magic, but a lush city as our setting. It's supposedly based on The Count of Monte Cristo, which I have read, but was so bored by that I don't remember a lot of it. Some of the "twists" here are pretty telegraphed, and it does get info-dumpy at the end, and there is one character who appears as a bit of a deus ex machina. However, there are a variety of wonderful supporting characters in addition to the two leads, and I appreciated that everything wasn't suddenly all happy-go-lucky for Amaya/Silverfish once she was off the Brackish. It's a quick read and there is some romance but nothing graphic (which I don't mind, but many do, particularly in something marketed as YA, which this definitely is). I can't wait to see more of this world in the second book.