livinginsolitude 's review for:

There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool

3.5

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I'm going to make this review short and sweet. Three stars aren't bad. three-point five stars are quite good. And this book is exactly that. It's so entertaining and just the right mix of plot and character work. Although it's quite obvious that the first book is very much setting up the heavy plot for the next book and also setting up the characters and their role in the story, I still very much enjoy how they all met and what their goal is in the next books. We primarily follow 5 povs, and unsurprisingly, I didn't love all of them. My favorite has to be Anton and Ephyra because they're the most interesting and complex characters, also the ones that didn't really have any moral high ground bullshit but still have their own fears and goals. My least favorite is Hassan, and when I said this I didn't just mean I like him but not as much as the others, nope. I actually sort of despise him as a character, because he's the type of mc that I hate seeing. Incredibly young and too naive to understand the world, that god-awful insta-love, his inability to use his healthy and young brain to stop and think about his actions just for one second, rage all the time, and also somehow inspired others to follow his stupidity. I hope he gets better as the series goes on but for now, he gets on my goddamn nerves and since he played quite a big role in the story, it hinders me from fully enjoying this book. But the rest of the book sort of saved it, and I'm excited to read the rest of the series and see our characters grew and learn.