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A review by sparrowgrass
Salt by Liz Shipton
4.0
Free copy from the author, without expectation of review.
I'll start off by saying I'm a couple of decades too old for new adult, so I'm not the target market. The things that didn't hit the mark for me personally are therefore no fault of the author's; when we began with school and school-enemy rivalries I wondered if I would be able to get into it, but that stuff evaporated to leave only the Salt and it didn't matter how old I was, only that we were adventuring.
I enjoyed the question of how unreliable the narrator was and liked the dynamic with Sargo, despite his not smelling of cinnamon, unlike a certain drink.
There are very few books I've read knowing the author (even parasocially) before the work, and I think it's a very interesting experience. I enjoyed thinking of Liz smiling over certain things, or hearing them in her voice. I loved having a typo-named character, as someone who changed one of my own character's names because I typoed it more often than I got it right.
Overall, I liked it, and the ideas are sticking with me, and I want to go back for more, so I certainly intend to carry on with the series.
I'll start off by saying I'm a couple of decades too old for new adult, so I'm not the target market. The things that didn't hit the mark for me personally are therefore no fault of the author's; when we began with school and school-enemy rivalries I wondered if I would be able to get into it, but that stuff evaporated to leave only the Salt and it didn't matter how old I was, only that we were adventuring.
I enjoyed the question of how unreliable the narrator was and liked the dynamic with Sargo, despite his not smelling of cinnamon, unlike a certain drink.
There are very few books I've read knowing the author (even parasocially) before the work, and I think it's a very interesting experience. I enjoyed thinking of Liz smiling over certain things, or hearing them in her voice. I loved having a typo-named character, as someone who changed one of my own character's names because I typoed it more often than I got it right.
Overall, I liked it, and the ideas are sticking with me, and I want to go back for more, so I certainly intend to carry on with the series.