A review by saerryc
The Uncrowned King by Michelle West

3.0

Game of Thrones-ish political battles, but with more demons, and also with a big tournament arc. West is good at writing characters (she should honestly be a standard recommendation for “books with good female characters” threads) and the plot is interesting enough that I will continue to book three, which is a pretty good indication of quality given these books’ length. Still, there are a lot of little things about West’s writing (like her lack of dialogue tags!) that make this harder to read than it needs to be and push my rating down to a 3.5ish. I did get a kick out of reaching a “can they get rid of the demons infesting the marathon course before the runners get there” cliffhanger (this isn’t really a spoiler since it’s what a good chunk of the book is about) the night before I ran one myself.