A review by monicalaurette
Duskfall by Christopher Husberg

Did not finish book. Stopped at 11%.
DNF’ed at 11%

This book I got from a friend before they moved and they didn’t want it. I thought the cover was interesting so I read the summary, which intrigued me a slight amount but not 100%, so I thought ‘oh I’ll give it a chance!’ Part of me wishes that I didn’t.

From the very beginning, I hated the line that the father didn’t care how old his daughter was; she had no place on a fishing boat, and I just hate the notion that no matter what, women don’t belong in adventure. And if you’re thinking “oh well this book must be older before people really started thinking that way” this book was published in 2016 so like….there were so many other great heroines and women adventurers at that time.

I just felt off about the tiellan/human like….conflict because I felt it was a half-assed attempt at making a commentary about real world racism and how it’s still around today and the effects because the tiellans were also enslaved but in the years before the book started.

I read this book for a little bit one day before going to work, and didn’t think about it at all until I was home and it felt like a chore to read it, so I just decided to stop it basically at the beginning. Most likely will not pick up this book again in the future.

Also, the character of Lian with the way he interacted with Winter made me think of Gale from THG and I didn’t like him so that didn’t help.
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