The Gilded Wolves

This book was awesome! Highly recommended. I'm sure I could find stuff I didn't like about it, but by the end I just didn't want to. The main character is kind of ...stupid... but not in a terribly annoying way and I was still rooting for him by the end. The characters feel kind of like they fell out of a manga since they're kind of over the top, but I like all of the main characters and I think it worked really well with the colossal amount of drama that supports the excellently paced plot. There were definitely some clever (and terribly sad) twists to the plot - though I have to admit the story was similar enough to Foundryside that I wasn't super surprised at the big boss battle. The magic is kind of hand-wavy a la just do whatever you want, but the story doesn't need technical magic to succeed. 10/10 would read this telenovela again.