

I honestly couldn’t keep track of all of them-were there ten?-and that’s usually my forte. Lord Orwell is a wizard, his wife is fey, and that combination created some fairly impressive outcomes, okay, a lot of fairly impressive outcomes. Lord and Lady Orwell had been quite busy. There were a lot of Orwell children, maybe too many. Sebastian also had many great siblings and sibling-in-laws.

Lord Orwell was another winner, very slippery and underhanded, but loveable. It was entertaining and a bit pathetic how he kept at Sebastian, even when Sebastian made it completely clear that he didn’t want anything to do with him. Pretty much everything that came out of his mouth was delivered with sass and cunning-my favorite. Sebastian was quick on his toes and a delightful asshole. Each character was precious in his/her own right, and because I loved them all so much, I can’t tell you who my favorite was. What I was truly impressed with, however, was the humor through witty repertoire and characterizations. To tell you more would be spoilers, but man, it was delicious. The entire Orwell family was loaded with secrets, and Argent leaked them out to us throughout the novel. Needless to say, the plot of Family of Lies was fantastic. Plots, twisted in plots, twisted in plots. Turren isn’t the only one the assassins were after, and Sebastian has to defend the lives and secrets of his entire family, and fight to keep his own secrets safe from exposure. Sebastian Orwell is the son of a washed-up wizard, but when he saves the crown prince, Turren, from an assassination attempt, he unravels a plot that will change everything.
