A review by eliajor
A Venom Dark and Sweet by Judy I. Lin

adventurous mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

Tell but not show but make it 400 pages with characters as thinly characterised as the pages this was printed on. Really didn't like anything. Shu was underwhelming. Ning was annoying. The romance with Kang was underwhelming too. Too predictable that I almost gave up before I was halfway through the novel. I feel like there was alot of mythology and an adventurous plot that needed more than one book to fully cover. Some areas Ning came across were interesting but this book suffers from way too much telling. The villain of the whole series was the most underwhelming flop of this duology it's almost comical. By the power of "spirituality" we can overcome this wrathful god in the span of 1 chapter.