A review by magpiereading
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Fantastic. 

I feel like I overuse the word lush but I really mean it this time! The jewels! The velvet! The feasts! A similar premise, on its face, to Shadow and Bone  (a woman of seemingly little importance and value is foisted out of poverty by a mysterious powerful figure and she has to quickly determine which of the new, powerful people around her mean to harm, help, or manipulate her) but that’s about it. I had to pace myself because I knew it was going to be good and once I finished I’d have to wait however many years for her next book
the ending didn’t fully make sense to me, I lost track of how this magic worked to save them both and break the curse but I don’t care because I would have lost my mind if the ending wasn’t HEA
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