A respectable debut novel, but I felt as if the book was lacking depth in certain areas. I cannot determine if this result of a new author writing the story or the fact that certain events were being saved for a sequel... Which leads to another point: why must all new fantasy books now have a seq...
I've got to begin by saying that this cover is such a bummer. I think that the cover of book one, Midnight Thief, is absolutely gorgeous and this is just so...not. I understand that this book isn't really published by Disney, but I wish they matched and were on the same level of beauty.With that ...
The magistrates barely investigated the deaths because they involved the city’s lowlifes, violent criminals whose deaths were not widely mourned. But there were many. One night, eleven bodies were left by the river. Their faces were purple, their extremities gray. Poison. When Lord Hamel heard th...