A review by spacedragonshoard
Diamond City by Astrid Cole

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

I’m going to rewrite this 15 times because I don’t believe in trashing books and I usually do unhinged reviews but every once in a while y’all get a serious one out of me and this is it.  

The premise seemed really interesting, and I’m always pro-female leads in books.  I never really connected with Sage, she got in a lot of fights for no apparent reason why except someone had beef with her.  All the time. 

There was a lot of telling involved in the story versus a lot of showing and so much exposition. When I got to the last 8 chapters, I skilled three, read one, skilled three, and read one, and didn’t lose the story.

I also didn’t buy Damian as the love interest, BUT, this is also not a love story, just a story with love in it so I don’t expect much time to be paid to the romance. 

I really wanted to enjoy this, but I couldn’t. I even soft-DNFed this, thinking that maybe I would like it better if I stopped reading it and came back to it later, but I didn’t.