Welcome to another episode of "Maya tries to find good historical fantasy," featuring: an eighteen-year-old girl in love with a three-thousand-year-old faerie (because of course), a love triangle (we couldn't survive without one of these now could we), super powers that handily make the girl stronger than most men, unexplained backstory that just... never gets explained, incurable lust for murder and blood (consuming said eighteen-year-old), & a vaguely Scottish (?) steampunk, ish (there's electricity and tea machines and ornithopters, I guess) setting.

This certainly wasn't the worst book I've ever read, but it fell short in a lot of ways. If you're looking for this sort of a book, I'd recommend:

➽ An Enchantment of Ravens (fae romance)
➽ Half a Soul (regency magic)
➽ Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (the really good historical fantasy that started my quest to find more of them in the first place)