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A review by sara_m_martins
Penny for Your Soul by K.A. Ashcomb
2.5
you find yourself in a metropolitan city, but this one if filled with all types of magical creatures and undead people. think Ankh-Morpork but more New York, more gothic, more zombie-ish.
you follow a cast of characters, starting at an assassination, that meet and unmeet at several points in the story, until they all come together for the climax of the story.
the writing and tone of it were very similar to what you find on discworld, as i've mentioned Ankh-Morpork before.
i personally did not care for most of the characters - i thought most of them were purposefully dislikable, but everyone loves Petulla, our main character, so maybe i'm just in the minority here. i just don't care for her "i love books and am apathetic about society" schtick. this is such a character based story that this hurt my enjoyment of it. the most compelling characters were the ghouls, and their civilization - their aesthetic is a lot more airy and greek-like, even if they live underground. dark vs light academia perhaps? i digress. Petula and Agatha should be a couple, that's all i have to say; although an argument can be made for Petula being in the aroace spectrum.
i liked the satire regarding the political process, even if i got a bit lost at times. i did NOT get the economy part... how are they in a Terrible Economic Crisis For Years and there is also a bubble going on? from the text you can infer the bubble is going on but has not burst: if you have a bubble everything should be fine. only when it bursts it all goes to shit... also, i'm unsure which economical system each faction was trying to bring to the table, so i never got who was decent at economics. there was also some satire regarding the issue of equality and diversity on several fronts, which the city isn't great at, but it's one of the arcs.
Thank you to the author and Booktasters for providing me for a copy of this book for review.
you follow a cast of characters, starting at an assassination, that meet and unmeet at several points in the story, until they all come together for the climax of the story.
the writing and tone of it were very similar to what you find on discworld, as i've mentioned Ankh-Morpork before.
i personally did not care for most of the characters - i thought most of them were purposefully dislikable, but everyone loves Petulla, our main character, so maybe i'm just in the minority here. i just don't care for her "i love books and am apathetic about society" schtick. this is such a character based story that this hurt my enjoyment of it. the most compelling characters were the ghouls, and their civilization - their aesthetic is a lot more airy and greek-like, even if they live underground. dark vs light academia perhaps? i digress. Petula and Agatha should be a couple, that's all i have to say; although an argument can be made for Petula being in the aroace spectrum.
i liked the satire regarding the political process, even if i got a bit lost at times. i did NOT get the economy part... how are they in a Terrible Economic Crisis For Years and there is also a bubble going on? from the text you can infer the bubble is going on but has not burst: if you have a bubble everything should be fine. only when it bursts it all goes to shit... also, i'm unsure which economical system each faction was trying to bring to the table, so i never got who was decent at economics. there was also some satire regarding the issue of equality and diversity on several fronts, which the city isn't great at, but it's one of the arcs.
Thank you to the author and Booktasters for providing me for a copy of this book for review.