A review by hb_bookworm
He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

4.0

I really, really wish this book had had more time to cook. there were some great moments in this book, but it felt - pardon the pun - drowned by so much repetitive pain that went nowhere. I was not expecting the amount of sexual assault and self-harm that was here, and while I saw the narrative purpose it served, it just felt drawn out in how it was portrayed over and over. I would have loved to have read a version of this book that cut out chunks of that and had more of the growth and change we saw in the first book. I do feel deeply for these characters and this story, but this book did not change me the way the prequel did. maybe my expectations were too high, but I really wanted this to be better.