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A review by wilt
Price of a Thousand Blessings by Ginn Hale
3.0
first off, i would not recommend this as a starting point to ginn hale. structurally this is not her strongest work. for reasons you might be able to pick up on from the book's description (and early in the book itself) its hard not to compare this to the rifter, and the way some revelations are presented in thousand blessings just dont pack the same punch or weight as they do in the rifter. i also found half the side characters to be one-dimensional, with repetitive quirks that erred more on the side of mildly annoying than charming. i enjoyed the few that we were able to get to know better towards the end of the book. but there was too much time spent on those repetitive traits, and also too many sections describing what every single character is doing in a group setting (and where exactly they are sitting) in one continuous scroll of text that didn't give them any favors either. i was also confused by how chill everyone seemed to be about the bomb at the start of the book. even if they didn't know it was a bomb per se, something was still very clearly wrong, and not even our deeply injured main character seemed to feel any urgency about the potential reason behind a massive bombing attempt at a majorly important event. neither did the intended targets (?). and the whole spywork / espionage plot (and cymin's conflicting feelings about it, and the role he's supposed to play in it) didn't seem to hold much relevance after the first day or so, which was kind of a let down.
that being said. this is only volume 1. im still very intrigued by the story itself. there is some really juicy stuff going on here and it feels like things are being set up to get even juicier and potentially blow my hair right off my skull. i will preorder volume 2 as soon as it drops. i am invested. and im also enjoying the world itself. i dont normally like seeing more modern tech in my high fantasy novels, but theres enough magic powering the tech in this world to make it fascinating. and who doesn't love trains? finally, i have to say i'm very interested in a (sort of) spoilery element regardingdeities and the.... spread of their memories . it puts a fresh spin on things and i have no earthly idea how it will all play out, but i so badly want to find out.
tldr; i want to see where this goes.
that being said. this is only volume 1. im still very intrigued by the story itself. there is some really juicy stuff going on here and it feels like things are being set up to get even juicier and potentially blow my hair right off my skull. i will preorder volume 2 as soon as it drops. i am invested. and im also enjoying the world itself. i dont normally like seeing more modern tech in my high fantasy novels, but theres enough magic powering the tech in this world to make it fascinating. and who doesn't love trains? finally, i have to say i'm very interested in a (sort of) spoilery element regarding
tldr; i want to see where this goes.