crapricornking 's review for:

Malice by Heather Walter
2.0

very very interesting premise. awful awful ending though. a complete tone shift, that wasn’t led up to by the first 90% of the book. one of the most jarring endings i’ve read. not even shocking, just completely unearned.

also the phrase dragons teeth was so overused here. every other page. dragons teeth. dragons teeth. dragons teeth. please, i beg.

i love the world building here, which makes this novel even more disappointing. this was about 3.5 stars until the ending, which easily dropped this down to 2 stars.