A review by silverflair
The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid

4.0

Everyone has a genre, that regardless of how many similarities the work in question has to something already in the market they will like regardless.

There's a reason certain tropes are so popular, they work.

I'm slightly ashamed to say I picked this up in the store because of the cover, but boy am I glad I did. I really enjoyed the majority of this, and honestly can't find much to complain about. The worldbuilding was wonderful to read, and I loved the political aspects which were included. The writing style, and the tone were something I received well. I was also able to connect with the characters as a reader.

I must say, the only minor disappointments I had was (I don't believe the following is, truly, a spoiler but just in case):

Spoiler

the romantic aspect of the book, and the way the majority of this world's information was condensed.

I can see how/why some readers gave this a 1 or 2 star, however they weren't that negatively impactful to me so my rating is higher.