Jul 24, 2022

Crescent City by Sarah Maas (2020) Bloomsbury Publishing

In a world where there are shapeshifters and vampires and fae and angels, Bryce, a half-human-half fae is the illegitimate daughter of the Fairy King.  Her best friends are an alpha wolf shape shifter, an assassin and a faun who is a famous dancer.  It’s the angels who run things and they’re not very nice.  Mix this with someone causing rifts into Hel, letting demons into their world who kill people.  When the wolf is killed along with her entire pack, by a demon, Bryce is blamed by the wolf’s mother who is in line to be the Prime wolf.  When a vampire is killed the same way, Bryce becomes a suspect.  The Angel’s fallen angel assassin is assigned to help her find who is summoning the demons.  Only things don’t go the way anyone expects.
The Plot is well done, the basic outline is that of a murder mystery, but there is too much bodice ripper imagery and way too much unnecessary foul language that does not move the plot forward.

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