A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
Demon Throne by Debbie Cassidy

4.0

I love getting lost in a book, I love making new friends, falling in love with fictional characters and exploring new worlds. I was therefore quite excited to dive into this new adventure! Especially since I love Cassidy's writing and the worlds she builds. And luckily I managed to get an arc and didn't need to wait until release day to read the book. Yesterday I was a little too tired to get much reading done, but today I made sure to read the entire book.

This book is action packed from start to finish. Our heroine gets next to no time to take a breath. Every time she survived one encounter another one is already waiting for her. There is a lot of fighting, a lot of different monsters are released and danger is lurking around every corner. I love how this fits the world this story is set in. Even though we haven't seen that much of it, it's clear that this world is dangerous and that everything has a price you might not want to pay.

I have to admit that our heroine and I had some issues connecting and I assume it's because we have absolutely nothing in common. She's literally everything I am not. She walks into this strange world, knowing next to nothing about it, but she's far from intimidated. On the contrary! She is interfering with everything and nothing and it's already quite clear that if our heroine ends up on the throne this entire world is gonna change.

I'm quite curious where the story will go. I'm most of all curious how the characters will grow and how the relationships will develop. At the moment it feels like most of the connections are mostly physical. There has been not much time for the characters to emotionally bond and it feels like a lot of characters are, by now, simply names. I therefore had some trouble keeping everyone apart, but I'm pretty sure things will change in the upcoming books.