I’ve read reviews that bash Ms. Carey for her lyrical prose, but that is what I love so much about her writing. She’s departed from that voice in some of her work (e.g. Agent of Hel), and while I enjoyed those reads, they didn’t pull at me the way her prose does in the world of Terre D’Ange or in her newest single-volume epic fantasy.
The imagery that begins this novel and presses through tothe end gripped me and just pulled me along. She makes the heat of the desertmagical in these lines, and though there is some magic within these pages, thetrue magic is in how she spins the words.
Read my full review here: Oh, the turns of her phrases!