Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo

It was a dream it felt like home in books.

This is one that'll stay on my shelves and never be forgotten. This crooked crew gripped my heart and will never let go. This duology has it all: childhood friends to lovers, f/f as one of the main relationships, found family, angst, hurt, soft moments. These four led me on a wild tornado of a journey full of loss, love, plot twists, family reveals, and literally anything and everything. With all of your messiness, imperfections, annoyances, flaws, histories, and beautiful banter and relationships with each other. Wesley, Saxony, Tavia, and Karam: I would die for you. I usually don't take to gathering a rebellion sort of type for second books but *God* this book outdid itself. Usually, I'm hit-and-miss with second books, especially when the first ends in a fight, and it's fantasy, but CITY OF SPELLS didn't have that cliche feel to it. From the very first page, I adored INTO THE CROOKED PLACE, and CITY OF SPELLS was a long-awaited book that had me gripped from the first page as well.Īlexandra Christo has created a rich, detailed, stunning world full of magic, charms, tricks, underdogs, and dark crime mingled with magic. There aren't enough stars in the WORLD to give to this book, oh my god. Though I love that this is a duology (the perfect series length in my opinion) I also would love to see more and more of this complex magical world play out because the different magic and spells were such a draw in this story. There was even potential for some healing at the end. The depth of damage that some of these characters experienced both physically and mentally was written so well and I really appreciated that they tried to support each other in understanding that it was okay to not be automatically okay after what they've been through. The story was of action and heartbreak, betrayal and world ending heroics. They are more complex than their original introduction and I enjoyed learning more secrets about many of their pasts. Being reunited with these characters felt so good and I loved to see their growth. It started with a gasp and a bang and did not let up. Well Alexandra Christo has captured me again as I could not put this book down. I really enjoyed Into The Crooked Place last year and was thrilled to get a Netgalley copy of City of Spells.

Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo