lambsbooks's Reviews (1.4k)

 Excuse me while I go cry.

This was beautiful and heartbreaking and everything I expected from an author who tore my heart to shreds the last time I read one of her books.

The fact that this city was based on an actual, real life city, the Hong Kong Kowloon Walled City, is kinda terrifying and sad. 

 "Oh, gods."
"Don't call out to them. I am the one who is worshiping you. I will worship at this altar until you are ripped from my fingers."

Evren likes to eat 💅 

“You may be blessed by the stars, princess, but you were fucking made for me. Fate be damned.”

4.5 stars

Holly Renee is the queen of fast-paced novels with brutal cliffhangers lmao

“It doesn’t matter that you are destined to be his. Every part of you is begging to be mine.” 

Morally grey men for the win

I’ll just be sitting over here, swooning over a fae wanting to kill our FMC and then…well, spoilers. 

Morally grey characters galore and I am in *crisis*

One of them shifts into a golden god of death and she killed him during their first meeting and the other knocked her out,

killed her mother, sunk her city

and has arm tattoos.

Sigh 

"I am strong," Emel continued. "Because I see your magic and say, I don't need it. I am enough." Emel stood. "You told me that comfort and power are bred from wealth. You are wrong. They are bred from suffering. And there is nothing the desert has taught me if not how to endure hardship."