And there’s Tristan, his genuine love of botany and spiders, who hides a past of nightmares. There’s Zofia, taunted for her Jewish, Polish background and she is autistic, who adores sugary cookies and is soothed by the recitation of numbers. I can’t even pick a favorite character because there’s something I love about each of them. The diversity killed it on the page – poc characters, queer characters, and neurodivergent.

And what better characters to inhabit this stunning and dangerous world are our cast of misfits: Zofia, Tristen, Séverin, Enrique, and Laila. All the way from exotic glass ceiling greenhouses to the taste of sugary sweet confections. I could feel the setting in my bones as wagon wheels drive over the cobblestones. This book is as bright and brilliant as Paris is at night. It’s not just back alleys, it’s decadent hotels the Eiffel Tower. Set in this historical Paris setting feels both luxurious and almost forbidden. They have their own personal missions, combined as a team for one epic quest. Each of these characters have their own pasts, their own talents. This book is full of multiple perspectives which is brilliant, because it not only allows us to see through the eyes of each character, but to see our favorites from new angles. The characterization in The Gilded Wolves is superb. What they find might change the world, but only if they can stay alive.

Together, they’ll have to use their wits and knowledge to hunt the artifact through the dark and glittering heart of Paris. And a brother in all but blood, who might care too much. To find the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin will need help from a band of experts: An engineer with a debt to pay.

In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, Séverin Montagnet-Alarie.īut when the all-powerful society, the Order of Babel, seeks him out for help, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. The Gilded Wolves is hilarious, heart warming, and emotional. This heist gang of misfits novel quickly wormed a way into my heart.

The gilded wolves roshani chokshi