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So again, all of it felt like a big set up for Alecto.

Related, a lot of interesting things happen near the end, but many of them seem to happen kind of at random (sudden inventions, sudden developments, sudden arrivals and changes). So all the things I hoped might be careful building blocks were just fun but empty details. The second half has a lot of gripping fireworks (and kept me reading!), but those fireworks didn’t feel particularly set up by the first half. The first half of the book is kinda meandering. Gideon and Harrow were such amazing PoV characters, but Nona generally provides more of a warm but blank presence in rooms of very tough active people. What we get instead is pretty good but uneven. I still had mega high hopes for this one. I understand that this book sprang out of (and is meant to mostly set up) the next book, Alecto the Ninth.