A review by mmefish
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This is book… is not good.

First of all, it’s super messy. Roshani Chokshi attempted to include too many things in the narrative, but none of them were written well. Info dumping does not stop until very late in the book and I had to constantly re-read entire paragraphs to make sense of the erratic descriptions.

The characters: at first, I enjoyed reading about Enrique and Zofia (I did not care about the rest of them), thinking that their personality traits will lead to some character development. But no. We finish right where we started. 
THE JOKES. WERE. AWFUL. The banter got old very fast and pretty much everything Hypnos said was terrible.
The romance. In short: “we wanna fuck”. There was one good moment
between Enrique and Zofia but then it got lost in a love triangle with Hypnos (really?).
The plot. We’ve seen it million times. And it includes many accidents when someone’s foot/hand slipped. 

In conclusion: there is really nothing redeeming besides the diversity of the cast. Oh yeah, the book is also supposed to talk about the atrocities of 19th century France (according to Author’s note) but… it does not, not really.
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