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zophar53 's review for:
Spring's Arcana
by Lilith Saintcrow
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It's a VERY slow burn. I was about 50% through before anything substantial happens. The protagonist doesn't have much agency and barely says anything or gets told what's happening for the first almost 60% of the book. By that point I'd started to get a sense of things, but by that point I'd kind of stopped caring. By about 65-70% through I'd gotten invested enough to finish it, but I never got the drive to read the sequel, even as it became obvious the book was going to end smack in the middle of the story.