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A review by inuyasha
Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
1.0
finally freeing myself of this at the 75% mark. i simply cannot do it anymore. i was listening to the audiobook of this while on a roadtrip and it hit a mark where i thought i was nearing the end, only to pull into a rest stop and realize i was only at the halfway point and things just got worse from there!
feels cringe at my big age to rant about a YA book but wow does mikuta's editor need to reign her in desperately. there's a good book and good writing here, somewhere, it's just buried under 9023805 pages of bullshit and 30 time skips that undermine any stakes this book tries to set up. very obviously the author just wanted to write a rom-fantasy set in a world with mechas and somehow ended up attempting a dystopian duology and the utter lack of care for the world building is so obvious. book one suffered from too many named side characters and book two gets even worse with it - we know these characters by quirky one-note indicators than anything else and i'm not really sure why i'm expected to care about them.
except jenny. the whole series should have been about jenny. it's crazy that this book tried to do a liberal "i can't kill the fascist leader bc then I'LL just be as bad as the fascist leader" thing when this book opens with jenny slicing a man into tiny pieces and scattering his body parts around. how did we get here
feels cringe at my big age to rant about a YA book but wow does mikuta's editor need to reign her in desperately. there's a good book and good writing here, somewhere, it's just buried under 9023805 pages of bullshit and 30 time skips that undermine any stakes this book tries to set up. very obviously the author just wanted to write a rom-fantasy set in a world with mechas and somehow ended up attempting a dystopian duology and the utter lack of care for the world building is so obvious. book one suffered from too many named side characters and book two gets even worse with it - we know these characters by quirky one-note indicators than anything else and i'm not really sure why i'm expected to care about them.
except jenny. the whole series should have been about jenny. it's crazy that this book tried to do a liberal "i can't kill the fascist leader bc then I'LL just be as bad as the fascist leader" thing when this book opens with jenny slicing a man into tiny pieces and scattering his body parts around. how did we get here