A review by bentgaidin
The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard

4.0

I really appreciate that for all that these books are about fallen angels and the machinations of Houses, the best that they can do is shuffle the counters in a crumbling city. The victories are won by the lost and powerless, the broken and healing who manage to pick themselves up one last time and succeed by rejecting the games of power.