A review by inesreads
Aetherbound by E.K. Johnston

1.0

I don't even know what to say about this book. It's only positive aspect is that it was relatively short, otherwise this was probably the most mundane, plotless, underdeveloped story I've ever read. This book reads a lot like AO3 fanfiction. Which is not a bad thing, but in order to write fanfiction, you need to have a body of work to draw elements from, which this book did not provide. The characters had no real personality to speak of. I can't even describe them through stereotypes like "the funny one" or "the annoying one". The characters are literally just their names. Named NPC whose sole purpose is to conveniently further the plot. Personal tragedy is mentioned, but rarely has any effect on literally ANYTHING. Definitely would not recommend this book to anyone.

Edit: Just remembered the various Hozier, P!ATD and Florence + The Machine references, which definitely did not help the feel of the book and made it seem really unpolished.