A review by loga81427
The Lost Apprentice by Tara O’Toole

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

This copy was provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion

I enjoyed this book a lot, it's a short-but-sweet type of novel and I loved the pace and the characters. The whole setting is really unique and interesting, I personally have never read any books centered around solicitors so that's a first for me. Plus, I enjoyed the mystery and it had me hooked until the last possible minutes. With that said, there were a couple things I didn't enjoy during the story that kicked my rating down a bit:

 

• I would've loved to see more building on
  Muriel's and Fiadh's relationship before the disappearance
  . We didn't get a lot of flashbacks and I think that's something I would've enjoyed a lot.

 

• The whole
  period pain plotline
  , while short, felt weirdly detailed for the importance that it actually had. It kind of felt like the author was maybe wanting to
  fit a lot of female rage on the topic but it wasn't that huge for the plot
  and in my opinion it read as too long and kind of weirdly introduced. I'm not uncomfortable at all with the topic, I just didn't like how the dialogue was introduced and developed.

• There were a couple of badly placed commas that made some sentences just not well written, but that was probably an ARC thing (I'm sorry I'm insufferable when it comes to punctuation signs)

Overall it was a good time and I'm curious to read more novels set in this universe as I think it has a lot of potential. The magic system is quite original and that's really hard to find nowadays!

PS:

Keefe

I love you SO MUCH you are amazing