254 reviews for:

Into This River I Drown

TJ Klune

4.11 AVERAGE

labrechawn's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

paracosmere's review

3.0

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I really thought I'd never find the motivation to finish this but here I am, two years later since dumping this one to gather dust. Who knew?

Anyway, I remember really liking the story in the beginning. An archangel utterly devoted to his Father yet he can't seem to let go of this human he fell so hard for? I mean, what's not to love. But then sparks lost their way to me midway. I can't believe I'm saying this about a TJ Klune book because I loved his works. This is still pretty neat but I guess just not up to par with what I expected from him.

I guess leaving it untouched and then come back only after a couple of years would do that. This is not a bad book by any means, it really is just me.

kaisv's review

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

the_littlest_lion's review

3.25

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

beata's review

4.5

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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: No

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Okay so I'm not good at writing reviews, figure the rating tells me all I need to know when I want to remember what I thought about the book. This obviously is tied in a tiny way with The Bones Beneath My Skin, but not by much. Only the town itself and a couple of characters. But it looks like TJ was building connection between this universe and Burn. It makes me even more sad that the Elementals series didn't pan out.

I added death of a parent as Graphic content warning, because a lot of the book focuses on Benji's grief, and moderate didn't quite ring true to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

linwearcamenel's review

3.25

dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

angelabookworm's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aljavi's review

5.0

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-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: N/A

fablestold's review

3.0

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DNF at about 60% I chose to do the Audiobook and I really really loved the narration and hated to give up listening. I also really loved the writing in general but it did get too repetitive imo and we weren’t any further in the plot from the beginning to where I quit. I would love to try another book by this author though based on the writing.

vidhyaa's review

4.0

emotional hopeful sad 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