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Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles

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escapismforlife's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This is me being generous.

Here's the thing the whole story is really about Kallia and then Demarco. It was fine love a good fantasy romance. But after a while it got old. When Jack started disturbing that relationship I was over it. Enter the triangle I didn't care for one bit. Everything else was pushed aside to focus on it.

The whole point was Kallia to prove something in closed off Glorian's magical competition. Instead she just proved how flashy and undisturbed she is by the other characters. Which is also another thing that was missed out on.

The plot is lacking when her competitors and a friend from the Conquers Circus start being impacted by a mysterious force. That's also trapped all of them in the town. One that is never really given any answer to. I think it believe it has something to do with Glorians forgotten past. But I'm hoping When Night Breaks better has clear answers.

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adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

2.75

I am so sad that I didn’t love this. This has everything that I love but for some reason I just didn’t really connect with the story and it was very hard to get into. I did pick up towards the end and it got more interesting. I really only liked one character and he was hardly in it, assistant he needed more page time. The romance was boring they have literally no chemistry before. Like she has more chemistry with the “bad” person. I don’t know I might read the sequel just to see what happens but I was just bored a lot of the time and it was hard to like get into. That being said I do think you should pick it up if it does sound interesting to you. I also really appreciate the diversity.

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