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A review by bowienerd_82
Death by Silver by Amy Griswold, Melissa Scott
2.0
I think I had this one over-hyped to me a little, and so found it a bit disappointing. It's got a good set-up: a Victorian Urban Fantasy with a queer romance... but it just never all came together for me.
I felt like I didn't get a good enough demonstration/ explanation of magic in the world, despite how much of the book it took up. The romance wasn't a big component of the plot, and most of the obstacles Ned and Julian encountered were based on their communication issues. And I felt like the boarding school flashbacks took up entirely too much space in the plot, without ever getting a good resolution. Finally, I didn't actually like the main characters very much. I didn't emotionally connect with either of them, and so wasn't able to get as deeply into the book as one might want.
It certainly kept me reading, and had decent style, but I think in the end it felt like it was written by two people who didn't quite line it all up perfectly.
I felt like I didn't get a good enough demonstration/ explanation of magic in the world, despite how much of the book it took up. The romance wasn't a big component of the plot, and most of the obstacles Ned and Julian encountered were based on their communication issues. And I felt like the boarding school flashbacks took up entirely too much space in the plot, without ever getting a good resolution. Finally, I didn't actually like the main characters very much. I didn't emotionally connect with either of them, and so wasn't able to get as deeply into the book as one might want.
It certainly kept me reading, and had decent style, but I think in the end it felt like it was written by two people who didn't quite line it all up perfectly.