Dance of Thieves: the sensational young adult fantasy from a New York Times bestselling author Paperback – 23 Jun. 2022

This book was beautiful to read. I don’t often read fantasy but I flew through this book. Perfect mix of fantasy & romance.

The book itself, the premise, the idea sounded amazing!And I had high hopes. While I liked the characters, their stories and the general storyline I felt that it fell a little flat.Never at any point did I really care a lot about the characters. I liked them but, it’s hard to explain, not that much?I sometimes felt the author spent too much time on lore and for you to have read other books of hers in the same universe (which I only found ont after) that for the first 200 pages I couldn’t imagine what the world looked like.If I’m honest, I still don’t, I hoped to find images and fan art but no such luck.And then where a lot of detail was used to explain more the characters kind of…well their backstory felt flat.For instance, Yes we get kazi being through hardships and unspeakable odds - but…her reactions when she confessed them to jase felt…shallow.All this time she kept it quiet and when she finally does share it’s done in two pages and …that’s it. All this build of emotion felt anti climactic. The love story which I looked forward to, felt like it was just a day one thing. Enjoyable, yes, but I felt like I wasn’t a hooked. But that’s personal preference.So while the whole story is def enjoyable - i doubt I’ll be reading it again.

Such a wonderful book and both series are wonderful must read for fantasy romance lovers !World building is wonderful and tension is wonderful - I know it’s kind of targeted at maybe not full adult audience so this is why but only thing is wish there were some steamy scenes rather than just alluding to what happens !

Good book

🌟 𝟱 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬: 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙮 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙀. 𝙋𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 🌟𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺! 𝘐𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘹 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥, 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺𝘴. 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘌. 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘥𝘺𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺.𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳: 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘤 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧. 𝘈𝘥𝘥 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘴, 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳?𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘭, 𝘝𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘴! 𝘏𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘴? 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴?

What a very good read, enjoyed it from the start to the end. Going to start the 2nd one next. Hope it's just as good.

Fall in love with the characters from first book and jump on the second book asap. I think I read it in two days. Or three. So good, cried lots.

I bought this as a gift for my granddaughter. She loves the writer I just introduced her to Kindle reading, I think I know what her next birthday gift request will be !!