The book is the well-deserved winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel. I say both genres because this book has a unique blending of the two that works really well here. No hyperbole - this is one of the best fantasy/science fiction books I've read. I will still continue because I did like the character and I love that there is lgbt and poc representation, which is always a plus for me. The ideas for the characters, the world and the story were very creative, but I wanted more detail and depth. The best way I can explain how this book made me feel is that it read like a shounen manga. I was really expecting it to end in a big cliffhanger, but it just wrapped up very quickly and left the rest of the confrontation for later books. There were some reveals that I saw coming and I was a bit let down by the ending. I feel like this book had a lot of world building and was more of an introduction to the characters. The plot is revealed slowly and the book isn't really fast paced even if the short chapters make it seem like it is. The chapters are really short and that makes the book quick to read, but I wish the moments with the characters were expanded in order to have more insight into what they are thinking and feeling. I enjoyed it a lot and got attached to the characters. This book has a very creative world with many interesting ideas and mixes fantasy with scifi elements.
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