accidentalspaceexplorer 's review for:

Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao

2.25

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This just didn't do much for me. I was very much enjoying the pawnshop part at the beginning, but then that gets 100% set aside and left alone for the rest of the book after maybe 10%? And the kind of whimsical, mythological things happening in Hana's world afterwards just make it hard for me to get into it because there are no rules, so I can't predict anything or see how the pieces get put together. Also, the relationship between Hana and Keishin just did nothing for me. The big twist at the end was interesting, but because it had been so long since the parts related to it had come up, it didn't hit very hard or feel very enmeshed. Overall, a disappointing miss.