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adventurous
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
2nd book to the midnight lie series and it was okay for me , comparing it to the first book where the author brilliantly merged the fantasy world with the one we live in to give a raw and gruesome view of how classism and divisions in the society have led to the exploitation of people who are considered as ' lesser ' and how no one really knows when , who and how those rules and boundaries were made , this one wasn't quite about to grab my attention the same way .
Starting of with Nirrim who I loved in the firat book watching her grown to the person she became , I really felt detached from her in this one, i know there were reasons for what she did but still her character lacked the charm she has in the midnight lie . Sid on the other hand was the only character who kept me going, her story and the way she not only dealt with whatever was going on in her life , I felt like she became the main character by the end of it all leaving behind nirrim . Her chapters and pov was all I was looking forward to .
And the end it felt incomplete in a way , it yet again the only way it could have ended but it somehow didn't feel like it , considering how both the books were 400 pages long it was too short for a fantasy duology and everything by the end felt rushed.
Anyway this book was an okay read , I'll still recommend it to people who live fast paced , easily world building and maybe corruption arcs .
Thank you netgalley and hodder & stoughton for providing me an arc for this book
Starting of with Nirrim who I loved in the firat book watching her grown to the person she became , I really felt detached from her in this one, i know there were reasons for what she did but still her character lacked the charm she has in the midnight lie . Sid on the other hand was the only character who kept me going, her story and the way she not only dealt with whatever was going on in her life , I felt like she became the main character by the end of it all leaving behind nirrim . Her chapters and pov was all I was looking forward to .
And the end it felt incomplete in a way , it yet again the only way it could have ended but it somehow didn't feel like it , considering how both the books were 400 pages long it was too short for a fantasy duology and everything by the end felt rushed.
Anyway this book was an okay read , I'll still recommend it to people who live fast paced , easily world building and maybe corruption arcs .
Thank you netgalley and hodder & stoughton for providing me an arc for this book
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse
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