Her only true companions are the cats that follow her around the City and speak to her in her mind. She is already not very popular with the other girls, but this skill leaves her even less so. Nisha learns what she can from a couple of the houses, including wielding a weapon and dancing, but what she excels in is collecting secrets for Matron, head of the City. Unlike the rest of the girls in the City, she is not trained for a specific house, to be purchased by the highest bidder at the Redeeming. Nisha is an orphan, as are all the girls in the City of a Thousand Dolls, henceforth known as the City in this review.
However, the rather slow pacing and the not-so-mysterious mystery both left something wanting.
But despite the fact that the novel didn't quite live up to the amazing cover, I still found it relatively engaging, full of murder and intrigue. Even the book trailer makes this book seem infinitely more epic than it is. It only failed at being the epic fantasy novel indicated by the cover, and the author even admits as much in her acknowledgements at the end of the book. But with a gorgeous cover like that, there's little chance the book will be a big ole fail, right? It's so reminiscent of one of my favorite childhood movies ever that I knew I'd read it, no matter what it was really about. The sole reason I added this book to my TBR was because of that exquisite cover.
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