A review by saraanneb3
There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool

3.0

This is one of a trilogy and so I know that sometimes you need the whole set to really review a series and that often the first book is weakest, so I may reevaluate this later but for now it's a 3. On the one hand I appreciate that the author got to the action really fast, but I could have used some more world building. To me it seemed like she wanted these really emotional scenes but it wasn't clear why the stakes were so high for the characters. Also While the "Grace" stuff is v similar to Graceling/Grisha/Witcher stuff, it's not fully explained so I found it kind of hard to follow. Also really could've used a glossary for all the different groups and places.
CW: I did appreciate a depiction of a character who is suicidal/has suicidal ideation and how real it was to that experience. There's no actual act of suicide/self-harm in the book, but there is a character who subtly and then more overtly wants to die/just stop being, and the depiction of that rang true for me