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riajade01 's review for:
Nevernight
by Jay Kristoff
Bright spots:
- Mia and her powers are super interesting. Very cinematic - each fight scene toward the end feels like a short film.
- What's not to love about a daemon familiar that is also pure shadow?
- The worldbuilding is rich and detailed
- Nice build of tension in the final act
- Nice twist that I actually did NOT see coming
Less bright spots:
- Kristoff never met a metaphor or simile he didn't like, apparently. It's distracting and, in some places, makes the narrative more confusing.
- The plot takes forever to get going in earnest, and this is when the purple prose is at its most intense. I almost put the book down five or six times in the first third of the story. If you can stick it out, it DOES get better.
- The dialog is all over the place - sometimes the characters sound like relatively contemporary teenagers, other times they sound like medieval western Europeans.
- Mia and her powers are super interesting. Very cinematic - each fight scene toward the end feels like a short film.
- What's not to love about a daemon familiar that is also pure shadow?
- The worldbuilding is rich and detailed
- Nice build of tension in the final act
- Nice twist that I actually did NOT see coming
Less bright spots:
- Kristoff never met a metaphor or simile he didn't like, apparently. It's distracting and, in some places, makes the narrative more confusing.
- The plot takes forever to get going in earnest, and this is when the purple prose is at its most intense. I almost put the book down five or six times in the first third of the story. If you can stick it out, it DOES get better.
- The dialog is all over the place - sometimes the characters sound like relatively contemporary teenagers, other times they sound like medieval western Europeans.