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The Court of Miracles
by Kester Grant
So I picked this up off my shelf at long last as I’m in a mood to read through what I own and I managed to read this whole thing in one stint of just 3 hours. It’s a very easy to pick up story, but it’s probably not one which will stay fully with me. It’s set in the failed French Revolution and so it harks back to Les Miserables and has references to moments from the revolution. I don’t know much about the revolution so I only noticed the most obvious toes but I suspect there’s more than I caught on to. The world is a fantasy one though with 9 guilds ruling over the city and people swear into different guilds to be protected. There are the Thieves, Dead, Assassins etc. and depending on the guild depends what you get up to day to day.
We follow Nina, first from a tiny girl, through to her more adult years as she is hardened by her time on the streets, the wrongs in the law that she sees and the crimes committed around her. She is first driven by a desire to rescue her sister, but later she gains a new sister and the attempt to save her from the city’s nastiest ruler takes her through palaces and guilds galore.
What I like about this one is the fast pace, although it does almost feel like a few short novellas combined as each ‘problem’ we have gets a resolution and then a new problem comes up. I didn’t mind this as for me it broke up the book a bit and I liked seeing what Nina did next, but this one doesn’t flow quite like other books and there are some less obvious time skips.
Overall, an easy read and one which I enjoyed binging through. I’m not sure where the sequel will go, so I’ll wait to see when the blurb comes to decide if I want to keep going. This story may be partially resolved but the world still has a lot to give and the characters and their interwoven plots seem like there’s more to come.
3*s
We follow Nina, first from a tiny girl, through to her more adult years as she is hardened by her time on the streets, the wrongs in the law that she sees and the crimes committed around her. She is first driven by a desire to rescue her sister, but later she gains a new sister and the attempt to save her from the city’s nastiest ruler takes her through palaces and guilds galore.
What I like about this one is the fast pace, although it does almost feel like a few short novellas combined as each ‘problem’ we have gets a resolution and then a new problem comes up. I didn’t mind this as for me it broke up the book a bit and I liked seeing what Nina did next, but this one doesn’t flow quite like other books and there are some less obvious time skips.
Overall, an easy read and one which I enjoyed binging through. I’m not sure where the sequel will go, so I’ll wait to see when the blurb comes to decide if I want to keep going. This story may be partially resolved but the world still has a lot to give and the characters and their interwoven plots seem like there’s more to come.
3*s