★★☆☆☆—Lady Smoke is a bland, wasteful mess. Both the plotting and prose reek of a lack of experience and practice. It reads as though Laura Sebastian word-vomited the entire thing from start to finish without stopping to think about a goddamn thing. If an editor did anything to this, it’s impossible to tell. The only way to fix Lady Smoke is to toss the whole thing out.
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