The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves, #1) by Roshani Chokshi Published by Wednesday Books ISBN: 125014454X
on January 15, 2019
Genres: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, YA
Pages: 388
Format: ARC
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Set in a darkly glamorous world, The Gilded Wolves is full of mystery, decadence, and dangerous but thrilling adventure.
Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. But when the all-powerful society, the Order of Babel, seeks him out for help, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance.
To find the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin will need help from a band of experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian who can't yet go home. A dancer with a sinister past. And a brother in all but blood, who might care too much.
Together, they'll have to use their wits and knowledge to hunt the artifact through the dark and glittering heart of Paris. What they find might change the world, but only if they can stay alive.
The Chef’s Review
The Gilded Wolves is such a great read, I cannot handle so many emotions right now! It has adventure, magic, beautiful friendships, humor, a great story plot… Aaah! It was exactly the kind of book I needed!
For starters, I must admit that I had my doubts at the beginning of the book. There was a lot of information and I was’t sure I was understanding the mechanics of the world building. It was a lot to take in and it took me a while to feel as if I were inside the world, instead of just reading details about.
And okay, I must also address that this book has a lot of Six of Crows vibes. Actually, I wasn’t aware that The Gilded Wolves was pitched as “for fans of Six of Crows”, but I came to that conclusion once I started reading it, and as characters were introduced, I couldn’t help but imagine each Six of Crows member instead of the actual characters. They ARE pretty similar. But not the same. It took me a while to stop imagining the Dregs, but eventually Séverin, Laila, Enrique, Zofia (who is my favorite character) and Hypnos (second favorite) managed to take shape in my mind’s eye and I ended loving them for who they are in this story, comparisons to other fictional characters long forgotten.
Another thing that I want to point out is that The Gilded Wolves is written with multiple point of views. I think that helped me understand them more and I just really enjoyed that aspect of the book. Like I mentioned before, Zofia was my favorite character in this story. She is an intelligent Jewish mathematician that has a magical power that’s called “Forging” and I just loved the way she was so straightforward and the way she thinks and reacted to certain situations.
However, I think my favorite thing about this book is that it made me laugh out loud in several parts of the story and cry at the end. And I wasn’t expecting that. It wrecked me and despite that The Gilded Wolves was not a five star read for me (for previous reasons), I still loved it and I will be following this series for sure!
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Happy reading!- The Chef
