In modern-day Manhattan where we lay our scene, two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal ventures.On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters — each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless — and their mother, the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants, known only as Baba Yaga. On the other side, the influential Fedorov brothers serve their father, the crime boss known as Koschei the Deathless, whose community extortion ventures dominate the shadows of magical Manhattan.
After twelve years of tenuous co-existence, a change in one family’s interests causes a rift in the existing stalemate. When bad blood brings both families to the precipice of disaster, fate intervenes with a chance encounter, and in the aftershocks of a resurrected conflict, everyone must choose a side. As each of the siblings struggles to stake their claim, fraying loyalties threaten to rot each side from the inside out.If, that is, the enmity between empires doesn’t destroy them first."--Goodreads blurb
I was really looking forward to this as I thought it had quite a lot of potential to be something I’d enjoy. Rival witch families and star-crossed lovers seems like a great time. But this just wasn’t for me. Atlas Six wasn’t for me either, so I think I’ve discovered that Blake just isn’t for me. And that’s fine! I can recognize wonderful prose when I see it, and while that’s definitely happening in this story, it nonetheless was only a 3-star for me. There were too many plots drawn out for too long, yet somehow it was such a straight retelling that it seemed boring at times. How does that happen? The central characters seemed quite erratic and the magic system could have been so cool, but it just wasn’t.
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