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Unfortunately, I did not make a review as soon as I finished the book, so, you’ll have to do with my vague impressions on a book I read (and finished) three months ago.
I am trying my best, but sometimes, life gets in the way *sigh*
Straight out of the bat, I can say that I’ll be reading the second book. The authors laid down the ground for some serious emotional damage and I’ll make sure to be there for it.
It’s quite a big book that follows different POVs, and only the fact that I succeeded to finish it and not feel like paddling through mud while reading, speaks of these authors’ skill level and capacity to breathe life into a multi-layered story.
The characters, also, felt alive and three-dimensional, like I could recognize each one of them individually, without having to follow too closely the “she/he/they said” dialogue tags, for example.
Maybe a bit more editing would have helped – there are some parts in which the story seems to stagnate or there are patches with a bunch of informational dumps which could have been cut out. But, alas, I do understand that this is the first book in a series with an intricate world, so there are a lot of explanations to be done.
