A review by sam_vimes_75
The Lightning-Struck Heart by TJ Klune

2.0

Readers like me are going to be coming from The House in the Cerulean Sea and looking for Klune’s earlier books. This is *not* THitCS. The characters are likable and the world building is clever, but there is CONSTANT sex talk (but only one explicit scene). The characters are more horny than they ever are in danger. While fun at first, it quickly drags the 400+ pages to a halt as you wish the characters would find a quick release so they could get it out of their system and stop getting in the way of the plot. Klune’s more recent books have a Pixar-level thoughtfulness and sweetness to them. This was more like Jersey Shore (but with likable people) set in a fantasy world.