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A review by simplyammee
Road of the Lost by Nafiza Azad
3.0
I teeter between rating this 2.5 and 3. The ideas in this book unique and intriguing, but the writing is not great. It isn't poor exactly, but a lot of sentences were clunky, sometimes ideas or thoughts didn't make sense, and almost everyone in this book is annoying.
The book ends with a cliffhanger that implies this book was meant to be at least a duology but frankly, when I realized that, I just sighed. I don't see anything about another coming out so I don't think the story will be continued. I think the author needs to work on fleshing out their writing more but the plot, world building, etc was very compelling.
Also whomever on the marketing team decided to compare this to The Cruel Prince should be fired. That's an injustice to this book and sets expectations up that this book cannot meet. The only similarity is a female protagonist in a fae world. The similarities are barely there and set the book up to fail the reader's expectations.
The book ends with a cliffhanger that implies this book was meant to be at least a duology but frankly, when I realized that, I just sighed. I don't see anything about another coming out so I don't think the story will be continued. I think the author needs to work on fleshing out their writing more but the plot, world building, etc was very compelling.
Also whomever on the marketing team decided to compare this to The Cruel Prince should be fired. That's an injustice to this book and sets expectations up that this book cannot meet. The only similarity is a female protagonist in a fae world. The similarities are barely there and set the book up to fail the reader's expectations.