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nair_dee's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
This is the book where Cotrina starts making it difficult to stop reading and completely and for all captures you within Rocavarancolia alongside those poor teens. If the first one had interesting description of the ruined city and the inhabitants, this is the one where the group decides to start truly exploring and investigating the past and what exactly means the coming of the red moon. Hector starts coming out of himself more; he didn't feel like much of a protag in the first book, but he's journing there, and it's good O.O The others on the group also get more of the spotlight and you are going to start picking favourites. Or at least the fascinating ones; in my case that's Adrian and Natalia xD
This is also the book when things start going truly downhill for the Harvest and for the Council of R. There's maquinations and conspirations that take place between the members of the royal council of Rocavarancolia, and everyone has its own reasonsoning and past that you discover little by little, which once you start to read those chapters with attention makes you even more intrigued about Rocavarancolia and everything in it. And the prose is so so good. Even now, years later after I read the books (I read them in Spanish) I can picture the cementery, the lighthouse, the tower where Hector and the others lived... The revelations that take place in this books, and the deaths. It's a dark ruined beauty, Rocavarancolia, and how.
This is also the book when things start going truly downhill for the Harvest and for the Council of R. There's maquinations and conspirations that take place between the members of the royal council of Rocavarancolia, and everyone has its own reasonsoning and past that you discover little by little, which once you start to read those chapters with attention makes you even more intrigued about Rocavarancolia and everything in it. And the prose is so so good. Even now, years later after I read the books (I read them in Spanish) I can picture the cementery, the lighthouse, the tower where Hector and the others lived... The revelations that take place in this books, and the deaths. It's a dark ruined beauty, Rocavarancolia, and how.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Grief, and Violence
Moderate: Mental illness, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts
Dark fantasy; Rocavarancolia wasn't a nice place. Hum, colonialism warning I guess, for the past of Rocavarancolia.
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