A review by kivt
Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh

2.0

another book with all the right ingredients to make me love it, but mangled in its execution. too much telling us how cunning mariko is, almost no demonstration of it. love interest subplot could have been exciting but wasn’t well developed. the setting was also underdeveloped. how do you mess up a haunted forest? but the WORST was the writing. the style was nearly unbearable. ahdieh loves the hell out of sentence fragments and paragraph breaks. her prose is not poetic, it’s stilted and immature. give this a pass.