This isn‘t a story about swords and epic battles. It is about the wars we wage internally with ourselves and how intelligence and manipulation can be a woman‘s greatest set of skills. These characters engaged me with their portrayal of how neither life nor people are black and white. We all have the capacity for cruelty as well as kindness and the line keeping us from becoming that which we hate can be a very fragile thing. I loved this book.

This isn‘t a story about swords and epic battles. It is about the wars we wage internally with ourselves and how intelligence and manipulation can be a woman‘s greatest set of skills. These characters engaged me with their portrayal of how neither life nor people are black and white. We all have the capacity for cruelty as well as kindness and the line keeping us from becoming that which we hate can be a very fragile thing. I loved this book.

Here is a tale that leaves you wickedly smiling. Black writes devastatingly beautiful yet cruel Fae that inexplicably enthrall and enchant you when truly the only thing you should feel towards them is fear. Be careful though, for as our protagonist finds out, a human will never belong in their glittering courts and is viewed as little more than entertainment. Oh, what a twisted thing we become in the attempt to surpass our tormentors...

In this den of assassins, thieves, and entertainers, we find an illusionist with the power to turn her imaginings into flesh and bone. When the impossible happens and one of them is murdered, her world begins to splinter apart as she searches for the villain who‘s systematically killing off her family. Daughter of the Burning City contains unique characters not frequently seen in its genre thrown into a world of magic, murder, and self-discovery.

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I quite simply loved this book. There is a graceful timelessness to it that captures a beautiful world filled with well-imagined characters and countless sentences I could reread over and over. There is forbidden romance, revenge, war, and scheming, but all done with such a delicate hand that envelopes you in the story as you fall in love with it. Rebecca Ross is a passion of wit who has woven a remarkable debut that is well worth your time.