If you’re struggling to get hold of a book for a particular Mid Sussex Reading Challenge theme or just fancy taking a breather, don’t forget you can use your wildcard at any time – to reread your favourite book. In May, Rose from East Grinstead Library decided to do exactly this and used her wildcard to read Crescent City: The house of earth and blood, rating it 5 out of 5.
I decided to use my wildcard for May’s non-fiction month as I have to really be interested in either the topic or the person that’s being written about and I really really wanted to read Crescent City! I have read non-fiction before, such as Chris Packham’s Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, which is really good, if you’re interested!
Onto my Crescent City review… and wow was this book amazing! At well over 800 pages it’s a big book, but well worth the time it takes to read. You simply fly through the pages. It is completely unputdownable and you quickly find that hours pass and so many things have happened in the plot that makes you re-evaluate the characters constantly – so one minute you don’t like this character, then 100 pages later, you feel sorry for them and eventually end up thinking “this character is great”!
As always, Sarah J. Maas manages to balance lots of intriguing characters with a well developed plot and many twists and turns along the way. Crescent City is a fantasy-based story with a foot in the read world, where the likes of angels, shifters, witches, mer people, Fae and humans all coexist (mostly) peacefully, until a spate of murders throws that balance into chaos, causing Bryce (half human, half Fae, all sassiness) to team up with Hunt Athalar (a particularly brooding angel who works in the Police Force) to try and uncover the culprit behind the grisly murders.
It’s a well-paced, action packed read that you will find yourself when you’re not reading or when you’re doing other things, and will forever be finding some excuse just to read a tiny bit more, or finish that chapter before bed – promising yourself that you will get to the end of a paragraph then go to sleep but then discover you’ve spent the last hour reading! (I did this on many occasions!)
Overall, a truly fantastic book!
The only problem is, now I want to know what happens next and there’s not been a sequel announced yet!
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