Thank you to Netgalley and Little Brown Book Group for providing me with a free copy of this books in exchange for an honest review! 

I unfortunately did not enjoy this book for the most part. The main character came off as quite pretentious, and the plot felt meandering and pointless to some extent. Whilst I felt the premise of this book was interesting and held some promise, the execution left the story feeling disjointed and inconsistent. The side characters, whilst somewhat interesting, still felt quite flat and the sheer number of them left little room for development across the novel.

The ending was incredibly confusing; there was no suggestion as to what the actual ending to the novel was, which could be a stylistic choice by the author, but it was just incredibly jarring to read and left me feeling unsatisfied with the conclusion. The tone and character left much to be desired, at least for me, but I can absolutely see others having a great time following Natwest.  Overall, this book was just not for me.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Holiday House / Peachtree / Pixel+Ink for providing me with a free copy of this books in exchange for an honest review!

This book was just... Stunning. The prose was wonderful; it flowed so beautifully and painted a gorgeous picture of this book for the reader. The way the characters and environments were described, succinctly yet in such a lovely way made this an incredibly refreshing book to read overall. The worldbuilding was so intriguing, and the author did a wonderful job of introducing you to the world within the limitations of the style they chose.

The only thing I can nitpick about this book is that I want more; more time with the characters, more time in the underworld the author created and just more time spent in the novel itself, but I think that this would prove an almost-insurmountable task. It would likely take away from the stylistic choices made to make this novel whole, and overall would probably work to its detriment, so I can't really call it a criticism at all. As much as I would have loved to spend more time with these characters, I think it is more a compliment to the author that I became so connected to them in such a short time. Even the side characters were endearing and the antagonist was quite obvious to me, but I think that was also intentional; even Andres had his suspicions quite early on.

Overall, this was a wonderful read that will absolutely stay with me, and will certainly be reread and analysed again in the future.