Pretty dull and hard to follow. It fell into the kind of story that feels like it was meant to be a seuqel and tells past events instead of showing them which is something I dont like.

Two kick-ass women, locked up in a flying city, struggling with their relationship while they’re trying to stay alive and escape. What’s not to love ?

I really liked Sabine she is a very interesting character who has support and friends but is still very much alone in her power and responsibilities. I would have liked to see more about Lyre past before she met Sabine, especially since (view spoiler)

I didn’t know it was part of a series and I hadn’t read the first book. It was a bit confusing at first but I grasp things quickly enough. I’ll definitively read the first book – Olivia is a very compelling character – and I hope there will be a third one, especially if Cian is one of the main character.

Sci-fi romance is one of the hardest genre blends to get right. It requires the emotional arc between the protagonists to be as fully fleshed-out as the speculative twists of the plot. But when it’s done well it feels more complete than either genre alone: richer than technofiction, and more transportive than real-world romance. I’ve seen it done well before, but I’ve rarely seen it done *this* well, and damn if I’m not a little awed.
A Treason of Truths is the sequel to the complex and gripping A Conspiracy of Whispers, and unlike most romance series these should definitely be read in proper order. The first book sets up the players and politics of Harper’s futuristic post-Crisis world—while giving us a sizzling romance between an Imperial prince and a prickly dystopian assassin—and this second book comes along to revel in the consequences. The fun of high-tech espionage, shady moral politics, and one of the best takes I’ve seen on the Fated Mates trope make these books an experience that shouldn’t be missed.
Empires live and die on the trading of secrets, and the family-lineage-focused, gilt-plated Quillian Empire gets their trade from Lyre (aka the Liar, if you’re nasty). But Lyre has unsuspected secrets of her own: one, that she’s a rogue runaway from the floating Cloud Vault, a city-sized hoard of pre-Crisis knowledge and self-appointed technocrats; two, that she’s helplessly, painfully, and irrevocably in love with the empress she serves.
Empress Sabine lost an eye in a failed coup attempt supported by a rival government—but it doesn’t take two eyes to see a trap when the Cloud Vault offers to host the two countries’ peace negotiations. What follows is a stunning series of threats, rescues, escapes, betrayals, and revelations aboard a shining, tarnished and utterly creepy floating ship-city. Nanobots poison the bloodstream and turn people’s own bodies against them, mechanical moths scan every passage for hunted heroes, and nightsbane-wolf crosses lurk in the shadows of the city’s forgotten underworld. All this plus a brutal, angst-filled, heart-twisting romance between two stubborn, prickly, complicated women who can deceive everyone but one another.
If there is a book three someday I will shout my delight to the heavens.

I apparently jumped into book two without reading book one and I think that was a mistake for me. I very much enjoyed this book. It was a good mix of action, intrigue, and angst. Although I felt sometime the angst was a little over the top; it might be just my preferences. There was a lot of world building in this book which, considering it's the second book, I am surprised of. What pleased me most if that it didn't come off as an info dump. The main characters are likeable, and the side characters stand well enough on their own. It makes you kind of long for side novels based on them and I guess that is a good thing. I will probably come back to this because I need to read the first one and then by law, I have to read the second one. Overall; great read.

This is the second book in the series but works well as standalone too. There is intriguing world-building, lots of description on nanotechnology and bio-engineering. I liked it but felt the focus was more on the action/adventure than the romance. Lyre and Sabine both are interesting characters and there was some angst in their relationship but not enough tension/conflict.

This story is a curios mix of futuristic world and adherence to all royal/noble traditions. We get a f/f romance set in a world where queer relationships are a part of the world in the same way as heterosexual ones are. The love scenes were tender and low-heat compared to book one.

In short this story gives the readers a fast-paced, cleverly built dystopian world, interesting MCs, some pining, some tender loving and a most glorious declaration of love at the end.