Reviews - Blackfish City | The StoryGraph

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For the first 60% or so of this book, I was wildly enthusiastic about it. The world is creative and vibrant, the characters diverse. The corruption and the bigotry and the (well deserved) swipes at America... it was all fascinating and engrossing stuff. Plus I loved all the queer rep! But then a certain event happened and it greatly dampened my enthusiasm. The plot got a little muddled and is a bit convoluted in places overall, and the ending is well... literally a mess. But I still love the world and don’t regret spending time there.

alylauren's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

allyens's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional 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

squidbillyinvictus's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mariasy's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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: No

this was really cool and had a lot of brilliant ideas. i did find it a little YA-ey (don’t ask me to define that) and i found it a little cloying at points. i really liked the setting a lot, but the characters and their inner lives just felt less rich to me