mortypie_513 's review for:

House of Blight by Maxym M. Martineau

4.0

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Thanks to Nerdfam and NetGalley for the ARC! 

This book is basically The Apothecary Diaries but set in a fantasy world with immortals and magical powers. 

The FMC, Edira, reminds me a lot of MaoMao. They are both apothecaries who try to solve the problems that royals have because of a contract that forces them to. The difference is that Edira is only trying to solve one problem which is the Blight (an incurable sickness) that has affected the world. 

This is a slow paced book. It is a clue gathering story but even I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Every time I tried to fit the pieces together it wouldn’t work because new information would arise and change it or there wasn’t enough information. I will say that everything does have a reason and it will be brought up again! 

The only thing I really had an issue with was that I didn’t really feel connected to any of the characters expect Edira. The Ferngloves (the royal family) were suspicious the whole time so I never really connected with them expect Orin’s (the MMC) brother intrigued me.