Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city, a grisly metropolis where the violence has begun to create real and deadly monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the inhabitants pay for his protection. August just wants to be human, as good-hearted as his own father-but his curse is to be what the humans fear. The thin truce that keeps the Harker and Flynn families at peace is crumbling, and an assassination attempt forces Kate and August into a tenuous alliance. But how long will they survive in a city where no one is safe and monsters are real...
Victoria is such an amazing writer. She has an amazing imagination and crafts fantastic worlds, but her writing style just isn't for me and I think it is time to accept it.
Full RTC on my blog, but here are my initial thoughts: - Heavy on telling instead of showing - Slightly repetitive narrative - dual POVs but the voices aren't distinct at all - uneven pacing; I struggled and was bored until about halfway into the book (which is common for me with Schwab's books) - once the action started, I was here for it - some twists that I didn't see coming - I didn't really care about Kate until the end of the book. oops?
