House of Earth and Blood

Listen, SJM has a style and whether you hate it or love it she's damn good at what she does and Crescent City was a start to what I know will be an epic and thrilling tale so tangled with interesting details and characters I'm bound to fall in love with even more. The 4 stars are not because I didn't love every second of this book and wouldn't buy the sequel right here and now (no preorders available yet damn it) but because as with any tale this massive, the start is a lot of slow build up to questions I don't yet have answered which made the story drag just slightly for the first 100 or so pages. Other than that, I loved this book and will be reading the rest of the series without hesitation.