I started reading SONG OF SCARABAEUS trying to keep my extremely high expectations in check (because everyone appears to have really loved this book) but I'm glad to say this book totally met my expectations and more.

SONG is very much a romance, but also an excellent SF story at the same time. Sara Creasy has built an inventive, yet accessible world - I was initially worried the jargon would be hard to grasp, yet I sank easily into her world right from the start.

The story is written deep in Edie's perspective, and her backstory is slowly unveiled. I loved how she developed, growing stronger and more independent, over the course of the book. And Finn mmm... well, he just grew on me.

The writing was spot-on - there were some beautiful sentences that really struck me, as well as some genuinely horrifying images towards the end, and the story held my attention from beginning to end.

There was an almost-cliffhanger ending, which for once, I didn't care about as I get to pick up Children of Scarabaeus straightaway.

I will say - the book title? SONG OF SCARABAEUS totally makes sense *after* having read the book, but it didn't really do anything to draw me to the book and I still find it difficult to spell Scarabaeus!