The story gets on the last gear very quickly and from there it flies like a rocket. Gail Carriger has talked about two different parts of the world in this novel. Initially, it is India the author talks about, and then the scene shifts towards Queen Victoria in England. Gail has not talked much about the landscape and other things related to these two different parts of the land because the primary goal was to talk about the vampires present in these two different parts of the world.
Rue and her crew are those around which the story revolves, at first the crew is seen in India, and then it returns with a piece of bad news for the queen in England. Rue was interested in solving the problems of the government but at home, she is not having the best of moments.
Her vampire father and her werewolf father are going crazy without any reason or perhaps they have been like this all the time and now they are becoming more frustrated with their lives. Rue sees all of this from a different prospect and Moira Quirk provides a slow narration in this serious situation. The devilish things in Changeless and Heartless were just nothing because something really bad is coming to this world.
Rue can stop the thing with the help of her crew but first, she has to deal with the problems that have rocked her house for several days now. If things continue in this pattern then her house will be shattered before she would be able to do anything for her family and the world will also collapse in a short time.