3.35 AVERAGE

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

What an unexpected delight! Violet Everly is a charming FMC - brave, tenacious and passionate. I loved her.

Her story, dancing through world's, through gods and prophecy and curses was exquisite. 

The writing was stunning and genuinely some of the best prose I have read in ages. 

This book was stunning and reminded me of neverwhere  or the night circus. 

Loved it.
adventurous dark emotional inspiring fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

It started off really interesting and mysterious, but slowed down a lot in the late-middle part of the book. Took a while to pick back up again. I’d say it’s decent, but not fantastic. If you like urban or dark fantasy, this will probably be enjoyable. 

brightonfan's review

3.25
dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This plot had a lot of potential, but I just don’t think it was executed well. I feel like there was a lot of unnecessary details during the very slow beginning and then as soon as it started to pick up, all the high intensity scenes were just kind of rushed though and glazed over. (every conflict was resolved very easy and quickly.) This led to the plot getting really muddy and hard to follow.

The majority of the plot revolves around the FMCs mother and finding her but this never goes anywhere in the story and has nothing to do with the resolution. There were a lot of loose ends that just left me wanting way more than what we got.

This entire book was very meh and was just not for me.
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes