I loved EVERYTHING about this book. Absolutely every last thing. Schwab clearly has a fascination with the nature of evil and good and the conflicts therein, and she does a lovely job of writing beautiful, haunted characters who think they’re worse than they are, or want to be worse than they are.
This is a genuinely unique take on vampires, which is REALLY hard to do. They don’t call them vampires, of course, but they clearly are, and they’re really NEAT. Each monster is created when someone commits an evil act, and they’re tied in some way to the nature of that sin. It’s really beautiful and interesting and fun.
It’s definitely YA, so keep that in mind, but if you’re a fan of the genre then I say dive in! I cannot wait to read the sequel, it’s definitely next up.
