Review: The House of Shattered Wings - Aliette de Bodard

My friend Owen recommended this book - and as it was only 99p, I thought I'd give it a go.

It's a sprawling urban fantasy - with an unwieldy cast of characters. It is suffused with atmosphere, palace intrigue, and a strong sense of decay and decrepitude. I'm usually a sucker "history + magic" books - but this was a bit unrelenting, and almost devoid of joy.

It has an unsatisfying end - like lots of cheap Amazon books, it is sequel-bait. Slightly frustrating. An entertaining enough read, but not compelling enough for me to pick up the rest of the trilogy.