101mystic 's review for:

Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff

2.0

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I tend to be a pretty generous reviewer, and give more stars than most people normal. This is a book that I'm being generous for giving two stars. It's not terrible, it doesn't have (that I noticed) rape, it didn't have weird sexist stereotypes that don't make sense in the story, but I was just so disappointed by the story. I listened to it via audiobook, and quickly got tired of the constant repetitive descriptions that were to long and too constant to actually add anything to the story. A lot of the steampunk aspects added to the story feel more like trying to steampunk japan than to make it make sense. The story wasn't so bad, but I feel like it was letting me down a bit. I did like the adaption of the traditional Japanese beliefs into the story, but sometimes the lore took on too much of an info dump "look at my world building myths" verses actually needed for the story. Which, there is a lot there that could have been built on more that actually has to do with the story, verses world building. So two stars, I will never read it again, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. And for those who want a simple story, that is easy to follow with a touch of steampunk in Japan perhaps this story will before you.