Hi Cara,
Into the Crooked place captured my attention last year when I was lucky enough to hear a snippet of it from Alexandra Christo at a Hot Key Blogger Brunch. Into the Crooked Place is the first book in these Into the Crooked Place duology.
Creije is a dangerous city made for the crooks and dreamers.
Where magic is alive bringing good and bad luck to its users. Four crooks will need as much magic up their sleeve to survive, as the Creije is about to become deadly.
All four have a different reason for wanting to save Creije, but they must work together to stop dark magic from spreading from their home to the edge of the world. Surround by enemies, they can trust nobody. Least of all each other.
Into the Crooked Place is crookedly perfect.
The mixture of fantasy in the gangster underworld makes for a gripping story. The selling of magic is really interesting. I know I would end up buying some from Tavia and Wesley.
I love the main cast of character they are so different and uniquely interesting.
- Wesley: The underboss who may not be as evil as they want people to believe.
- Tavia: Busher who want to earn what she has with hard work, who doesn’t want to be a criminal.
- Saxony: Resistance fighter that wants to keep her family safe, and do anything for revenge.
- Karam. A deadly warrior without a cause, and a job as Wesley bodyguard.
Into the Crooked Place is told in multiple POV, spilt by chapters. This helps keeps the pace up, and it’s fun seeing inside the other characters mind and what they think of each other. I especially like seeing into Wesley minds.
A special shout out to the magic structure in Into the Crooked Place. I love the way the abilities are split into a category and what each can do. I really interest in intuitcraft as I’ve never seen future seeing/ altering reality before.
Also, I like that all the characters have issue and deal with them in different ways. It nice seeing the human ticks like Wesley nd his cuff links.
As I was aware that it was a duology I knew certain aspects wouldn’t be completely resolved. But the ending had me gasping for the second book.
Into the Crooked place is perfect for fans of gangster fantasy like Ace of Shades.
My rating for In to the Crooked Place is 5 out of 5.
Thank you to HotKey Books for supplying me with a physical copy of Into the Crooked place for a fair and honest review.
Into the Crooked Place is published 8th October 2019.
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