A review by banrions
A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft

3.0

I think this ended up at a 3.5ish read for me. It had the unfortunate timing of reading it while in a pretty big reading slump for me (with this and some other books) and that clouded my feelings on it a little bit, but I also think I had a little bit different expectations going in. I thought this was a bit more of a dark academia fantasy novel, and it’s not really. It’s about scholars, but it’s def not dark academia. I also thought it was more of a romance than it actually was. Yes, there is a romance in here, but it’s really more of a Lorelei character study type of thing with a heavy dash of the romance with Sylvia helping that growth along. I still enjoyed it, but I wanted to like it a little more than I did, especially as it was my aardvark pick for the month, and when I buy things without reading them first, it always adds to the pressure to like it a lot.

All that said, I enjoyed it. It was my first novel by this author and is def check out another.