Gilded Wolves

 The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi is one of those books that you should not go into with high expectations. This book was so hyped that I could not lower my expectations and did not enjoy it as much as I wanted to. 

The beginning was slow and confusing with a lot of flowery writing that made me feel like I should give the book an extra star because it was not it's fault that it was so hyped up that I wound up with unrealistic expectations. However, the ending did pick up and I did enjoy reading it, but wished that the beginning did not exist.

I cannot express enough how much I did not like the beginning or Laila's character (she rubs me the wrong way). Be warned there are a lot of inconsistencies in the book to the point I could not figure what the characters were supposed to look like anymore. And Tristan's characterization suddenly went left field and I kind of wish there was more of a lead to into it because it was suddenly like bam he's the complete opposite of who he is.

My favourite character was Hypnos because he is such a delight to read. He never really strays from who he is and he embraces himself flaws and all.

This book is destined to be a four out of 5 stars. (It was going to be four to add to the three because of the hyped up aspect, but the ending saved it and brought it up to an actual four. Just to confuse all of you.)

This is a tricky book to recommend because the second book is infinitely better than the first and you need to read the first to get the second book. (Although there is a lot of retelling of what happened in the first so if you want to skip this one you probably could).