An excellent start for a new fantasy series.
I found it engrossing and entertaining, with a great and fleshed out cast of characters, and an amazing world building.
Can't wait to read the next instalment.
Strongly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

This book is a mix of magic and adventure. It makes me love and hate this book. I want to be living in this book forever

This book was not at all my kind of thing. To start with, it is massively long - at least 3 times the length of most books. Then there’s all the excessive death, politics, betrayal and so on. All the kind of things I hate reading about. From the cover and description, I was expecting a fun fantasy spy caper.

However, if you are into spy adventures and have no issue with lots of politics and people dying, then this may be the book for you. The world is realistic, self consistent, complex and in some ways compelling. In general, it’s very well written (there are a few sentences with words missing, or the wrong words, but as this is an ARC, hopefully those will have been corrected before publication).

In conclusion, although I really didn’t like this book, I’m giving it two stars as I can see how lots of people might love it.

I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review:

Great original story with characters I will be thinking about for a long time. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a fresh take on this genre.