A review by briggamooz
City of Lies by Sam Hawke

5.0

There is literally not enough that can be said for City of Lies. The world-building! The people! The relationships (both platonic and not)! Hawke details and scrutinizes the world of Sjona with a meticulous blade, peeling back the layers of culture and society to delve into conspiracy and war in a manner George R. R. Martin would be in awe of.

This is a decadent, page-turning, churn of a read that is so inexorably satisfying I immediately started trying to get my hands on its sequel, Hollow Empire.