A review by silver_ethereal
Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The characters are sooo endearing and refreshingly "normal". All of this is so charming and funny. This is quite an achievement considering how many beheadings there are. 

I loveee all the insight about perfumes and their components and creation. This made for lovely and unique character building. 

The only reason I didn't rate this higher is that the plot sort of felt like an afterthought. I was definitely reading this for the romance/characters/world building rather than the rest of the plot.

Although the creature who can bite off an entire head and then occupies the victims body until it rots away and it needs to find a new body was very interesting and horrific.