thewitchinghour 's review for:

The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy

2.5

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Definitely giving Manon and Elide but only in theory. Involved a lot of telling and not showing, and felt as though it would have benefitted being read over by an editor a few more times before publication. It just really irks me when the same word is in multiple sentences too close together. The writing felt messy and didn’t really describe anything, just told us what was happening and how everyone felt about it. As someone who reads a whole lot of high fantasy this one definitely has the bones and at least a spark of what could be a good witchy story. This one took me a long time to get into it and I never felt as though I was actually in the story, however I always enjoy a group of women in all black at least a little.