A review by leeaeverett
Age of Ash by Daniel Abraham

3.0

This is the story of a city, while at the same time it intimately follows several of its urchings. Alys is barely scraping by on the streets, relying on coordinated thefts to get the coin to survive. One day, the job gets complicated and gets her brother killed (orso she thinks). Grieving him, she tries to get him back while trying to get revenge, and winds up taking her brother's place in the same deadly political plot he'd fallen into. The story also follows a few other characters as the wider plot is revealed, but it mostly follows Alys. I'm really interested to see how her story intersects with the other characters of the following novels, but since Alys is so angry and reckless through much of this book, I didn't necessarily love being in her head. But I'm eager to see what happens next!

I was given an eARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.