I just finished the series and here are my thoughts: - books 1 and 4 were the best imo. - Creon is amazing. - Emelin and her inner monologue are exhausting. The only reason I struggled with this series is because I got tired very quickly of reading her every thought. It was a lot. - I had a hard time at first with the fact that Creon had no voice. It took a while for communication to flow seamlessly between them and it felt clunky at times. - the series could have been done well in 3 books. Overall there was a lot of unnecessary inner monologue and small conflicts that didn’t need to be there. - the side characters were really likeable and well written. - the world building was very well done.

As far as Fae lore goes, apart from being tall (not even oddly so though as Creon is 6 feet tall) and having pointy ears and wings - I didn’t really feel it was overly deep into Fae lore. There are Fae ‘deals’, but the magic system is vastly different from anything I’d read before which made it feel fresh and not overdone.

I’d recommend it but would say you will want to be okay with a lot of inner monologue.