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A review by danaleelin
Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles
5.0
I want to thank Netgalley St. Martins Press and Wednesday Books for granting me this ARC in exchange for my honest reviews and opinions!
Janella Angeles’ debut novel reads like a instant favorite. Many times books are compared to other works and as a reader I only see hints at it. That is not the case here.
Compared to Phantom of the Opera, Moulin Rouge The Night Circus and Caraval, this book takes the vibrant and mysterious aspects of those and weaves it together into something completely spellbinding. The description and world building here are splashes of colors popping up over a grey mystical background that make it come alive.
Like a magician that never reveals their tricks, this book never reveals the twists and turns fully, drawing you further in page by page.
Kallia is such a fun character, who strives to find her way in a world that doesn’t want her to have the power, running from a past that refuses to let her go and getting insnared in a life changing and possibly life ending mystery. The cast and crew that surround her are some of the more colorful and spunky characters I’ve seen in books lately, I just wish we got MORE of them to know who they were outside of Kallias journey.
It starts out slower, giving you hints of what’s to come. By the second half I was losing sleep to find out what happened next. Thank goodness this book is a series because I cannot WAIT to know what happens
Janella Angeles’ debut novel reads like a instant favorite. Many times books are compared to other works and as a reader I only see hints at it. That is not the case here.
Compared to Phantom of the Opera, Moulin Rouge The Night Circus and Caraval, this book takes the vibrant and mysterious aspects of those and weaves it together into something completely spellbinding. The description and world building here are splashes of colors popping up over a grey mystical background that make it come alive.
Like a magician that never reveals their tricks, this book never reveals the twists and turns fully, drawing you further in page by page.
Kallia is such a fun character, who strives to find her way in a world that doesn’t want her to have the power, running from a past that refuses to let her go and getting insnared in a life changing and possibly life ending mystery. The cast and crew that surround her are some of the more colorful and spunky characters I’ve seen in books lately, I just wish we got MORE of them to know who they were outside of Kallias journey.
It starts out slower, giving you hints of what’s to come. By the second half I was losing sleep to find out what happened next. Thank goodness this book is a series because I cannot WAIT to know what happens