Reviews

Ebony Gate by Ken Bebelle, Julia Vee

mattyamazing's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

tsparr's review against another edition

3.0

 This was an easy, fun read, but what really threw me off were my own expectations going in. This book was sold to me with the tagline of "female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco’s Chinatown." (emphasis mine), and that set me up into thinking this would be just a continual action, revenge whirlwind. What I got was a retired assassin having to re-enter the world they thought they'd escaped. Definitely John Wick-esque, but skewed differently than I was expecting. The world-building is solid and there's a lot of interesting and unique ideas thrown at you, but again like John Wick, expect to have to pick up the majority of things by context clues. I'll be reading the sequel. 

nightwing's review

DNF at 20% of the way through. I felt like I was thrown in the middle of a long backstory and it was painfully slowly revealed but not fast enough for me. 

arielnw's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

vashnii's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

joezzles's review

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

lacellej2012's review

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

fictionaddictions_amanda's review

3.0

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lindseyrenee's review

Overall I’m giving it a 3⭐️. Loved the magic and the plot, however I have issues with the pacing in the second half. given the 2 day deadline, you would think the closer it gets to day 2 at midnight the faster it would get but no, it slowed so much it felt like many more days passed. Also have mixed feelings on Emiko- for the most part I liked her but when rains Fiona she becomes so judgemental about the fact that she is so feminine. Also her non magical side characters were very present in the first half and seemed to disappear until the last page. It seemed like set up for them to play a bigger role and then didn’t

soulpromise's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5