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A review by balto
Ruinsong by Julia Ember
4.0
3.5 rounded up.
I feel like I had a more coherent review in my head while I was reading and now that I'm done I've got nothing. This was nothing spectacular but it had an interesting world/magic system I would've liked to know more about and I zipped through reading this a lot faster than I usually take.
Biggest complaint is probably the pacing to me, in that it felt like a good portion of the book was too much of a slow build to a very fast ending. The romance felt similar in that way too, I don't think they even interacted on page for a long time, and I would have liked to see more development there before the book ended so fast. Normally I appreciate a YA standalone but this is one I would've liked to have more on just to see what happens after all the dust has settled and to see Cadence and Remi navigate a relationship after everything that happened.
I feel like I had a more coherent review in my head while I was reading and now that I'm done I've got nothing. This was nothing spectacular but it had an interesting world/magic system I would've liked to know more about and I zipped through reading this a lot faster than I usually take.
Biggest complaint is probably the pacing to me, in that it felt like a good portion of the book was too much of a slow build to a very fast ending. The romance felt similar in that way too, I don't think they even interacted on page for a long time, and I would have liked to see more development there before the book ended so fast. Normally I appreciate a YA standalone but this is one I would've liked to have more on just to see what happens after all the dust has settled and to see Cadence and Remi navigate a relationship after everything that happened.