A review by blacksentai
The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard

So. I a just not into books where bad things keep happening. It stops being interesting at all to me. I know what's going to come next, the worst option. This book does a lot of that and sapped all the enjoyment I was getting right out of it.
And the book relies heavily on the one plot point from the first book that felt the most forced. I still never feel like I've gotten enough from that relationship to make all of one character's decisions make sense to me.