City of Stardust by Georgia Summers
My rating: ****
Genre: Fantasy
Tags (I’m just starting to do this, and doing it from memory when I read the books, so this might not cover them all!) Dysfunctional family, Magic, Romance.
Violet Everly is raised by one of her uncles after her mother leaves her when she’s young, to go and break the family curse. When Violet grows up, she also wants to find her mother, and also break the curse.
Aleksander is the assistant to Penelope, a powerful person in the world of Scholars, which Violet is on the very fringes of.
I was cheering Violet on as she uncovered secrets and works at trying to break the curse.
I found the story to be interesting and unexpected, with a wide cast of characters, some of whom are just background, but others are more solid.
I found this jumps around a bit, so it makes it hard to know what characters were up to some times. So overall, I found it to be good but not marvellous!
I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Hodder & Stoughton.