A review by leonidskies
Mothers of Fate by Lynne Hugo

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 I received an advance digital copy of this book in exchange for my review.

This is a really solid book. It's not super my thing, but I think it was good in what it was doing. 

This is a book about people who make a lot of mistakes while they're thinking mostly about themselves and very little about the people they love. Each character was complicated and made some truly painful (in a satisfying way) choices and a lot of them were genuinely difficult to like for most of the novel, making this an experience less where I was hoping something specific would happen and more where I was watching very messy people ruin things but didn't have to feel guilty about being entertained by the suffering of real people. 

The book itself was a pretty fast read and largely easy to digest - the only real stumbling blocks for me were elements where the prose needed another round of edits. There were several mistakes, but I'm reading this book months before release so I don't think they'll all be in the final book. 
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