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kris_rainboes 's review for:
The Court of Miracles
by Kester Grant
This is an oddly fascinating little adventure/heist novel. It's not a retelling of "Les Mis," because the historical context is utterly different. It's not necessary to have read "Les Mis," or even to know the musical, although if you do know the story, it's kind of fun to see various characters pop up and to see what Grant will do with them. And I'm not quite sure how she decided to interweave the "Jungle Book" influences. But...meh? None of this should work, and yet pretty quickly into the book I decided to stop caring about the fact that it shouldn't work and just let it work anyway, almost in spite of itself. The world-building of the Miracle Court is a lot of fun, and the comparisons to "Six of Crows" are not entirely without merit. Nina is fierce and gritty and smart, and it's refreshing to read a novel where the heroine gets by on her own intelligence and skills rather than from being some sort of "chosen one". I look forward to seeing if there's a sequel.