Sam Hawke's City of Lies
I actually finished this yesterday, but my internet was down for 12 hours and I couldn’t blog! Scream emoji. So this book is narrated by a pair of siblings from a family whose secret job is to protect their chancellor, primarily from being poisoned. The brother is the current anti-poison guy (struggling with severe anxiety/OCD) while his sister is more on the spy side of things (and chronically ill thanks to a poisoning gone wrong). But soon things are even more dangerous as their uncle and the currently chancellor are murdered by an unknown poison, their young friend has to take up rulership, and the city is suddenly under siege. Who is behind all this and what the heck is going on?? Most of this is really engrossing, though some parts do drag, and the romance feels really shoehorned in (I did like the love interest and wish her character had been built up more). Interesting worldbuilding where the families run down matriarchal lines. Lots of secondary characters are gay. I’m already halfway through the sequel. A-/B+.
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