A review by alcoholic_frog
The Ouroboros Cycle, Book One: A Monster's Coming of Age Story by G.D. Falksen

5.0

This book is fairly underrated but it's great to see a lot of positive reviews still because this book is just so good. I'm reading this for the second time as I bought the other books and need a refresh before I start reading the rest of the series. I have picked up on so many marvelous things on my second read of this book. The wit and the dialogue is top notch and everything about the characters from their complexity to their presence on the page makes this book unlike any other. It is written very well and thoroughly and everything about the worldbuilding is brilliant. The book has the right amount of descriptions in it for all the different scenes but it is very much a character driven book rather that a meandering quest. If you expect to be reading primarily about vampires in this book then you will be sorely disappointed. Although there are vampires in this book it doesn't become the focus until the last half-ish of the book. The cult that Babette's family is a part of is a spooky undertone for the book and the shadow hanging over all of these characters lives. This is a very interesting take on a period piece that would have been boring if not for the fantastical elements that G.D. Falksen expertly wove throughout the narrative. He is a true master of fiction and I will forever be rereading this series and this first book.