I love Leigh Bardugo and say 99% of this is the usual enjoyable style and interesting characters and cool magic, and all the typical great stuff she writes so well, but that other 1% is the reason it's a 4 not a 5. I got a little lost in the sheer amount of magic/demon/other creatures/other spells and items that got thrown at us and I didn't have a good sense of time frame either. But otherwise I enjoyed getting more of Alex's story and seeing her take charge and her and Dawes being a cool magical team. I hope there'll be a next one because then this one can be that typical "middle of a series" book that are always a little weaker, generally. But I'll def reread it