A review by dragonlilly
A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

This is a nice book, and is adventurous and a bit fun, and sometimes cute, but I couldn't help but feel a bit dissapointed by the end of it. The story was interesting and the second half took me by surprise in many ways, and I enjoyed it because it was more fun, but I kind of felt that the repetitive critiques on the western patriarchy and the constant thoughts our main character has about herself and other women for the sake of establishing this book as a sort of feminist lookback at history, all made the book kind of drag on a bit. It was so constant and not always written or worded very well, so I did not particularly enjoy that aspect of the book, and it took away my enjoyment from the book as a whole. I liked many little things about the story, and while I felt like almost too many characters got introduced in the secons half, it was still relatively charming. I think it is a nice book for a younger audience perhaps, because I don't think the feminist aspects really reach a woman who understands all this stuff already, and the writing of it would perhaps serve a younger person more.