3.89 AVERAGE

rksbowlin's review

4.25
adventurous dark mysterious 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
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s_macqueen's review

3.75
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The premise was interesting! A YA dark academia set in purgatory with rivalries and the Decennial, a high-stakes competition every 10 years? Count me in.

What I enjoyed: interesting magic system, decent world building, a competition with trials, the academic rivalries

What I didn’t enjoy as much: the characters felt more juvenile in terms of action and thoughts (to be fair, they are teenagers), too many secrets/not enough communication, too many POVs

I typically don’t mind multi-POV books but I wish we had fewer ones in this book so we could have spent more time with each character and developed them more. The ending was fast paced and ended on a cliffhanger. I’m curious to see how the series will continue!
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7oranges's review

4.75
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

asaprania's review

5.0
dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
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pennedbymaria's review

5.0
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

amholley's review

4.0
adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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: Complicated

wolfie_cactar's review

4.5
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A