A review by morethanmylupus
This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson

adventurous

2.5

I'm forever complaining that fantasy novels often drag out the plot into more books than are really needed. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that this book had the opposite problem. There was entirely too much happening here. I think it would have been a more enjoyable read if some of that real estate had been spent on character development instead. We had a lot of plot and very flat characters, which made it difficult to care much about what was happening to the characters during all those plot points. The world-building was nebulous: non-existent in places, left to the reader to fill in with guesses other times, and overall hard to follow. The ending is clearly a cliffhanger setup for the next book, but I'm not invested enough to finish this series. 


 

A huge thank you to the author and the publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley. This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.