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Listen, I really REALLY wanted to like this book. Magic, Sapphics, and discussions of the environment, sign me up! But this book really just feel short for me unfortunately.
I'll start with the things I did like, the writing is gorgeous, it's incredibly descriptive and really transporting, the scenes were incredibly vivid in my head and I had quite a good understanding of the characters.
This book has a great premise but it just seems a little bit confused, for such a long book our main characters just immediately deeply trust each other despite having just met. The main character also seems to come to the same epiphanies over, and over, and over to the point that it feels like whole scenes of this book could be taken out. On top of that there is supposed to be this kind of mystery as to who our love interest is but, due to the dual timelines we get given this information in the I think fourth chapter, I'm not sure if it's supposed to be some kind of dramatic irony or what, but it just didn't really work. In the same kind of vein, the commentary of mining and it's effects on the environment, which are presented as the themes of this book at the very start are pretty surface level.
My last thing is definitely a little bit more personal, but there is quite a strong theme of religion, specifically Christianity, to the point that one of the characters repeatedly quotes passages from the bible, just in case you forgot how religious they are.
I loved the idea of this book, but unfortunately it's execution just wasn't it for me.
I'll start with the things I did like, the writing is gorgeous, it's incredibly descriptive and really transporting, the scenes were incredibly vivid in my head and I had quite a good understanding of the characters.
This book has a great premise but it just seems a little bit confused, for such a long book our main characters just immediately deeply trust each other despite having just met. The main character also seems to come to the same epiphanies over, and over, and over to the point that it feels like whole scenes of this book could be taken out. On top of that there is supposed to be this kind of mystery as to who our love interest is but, due to the dual timelines we get given this information in the I think fourth chapter, I'm not sure if it's supposed to be some kind of dramatic irony or what, but it just didn't really work. In the same kind of vein, the commentary of mining and it's effects on the environment, which are presented as the themes of this book at the very start are pretty surface level.
My last thing is definitely a little bit more personal, but there is quite a strong theme of religion, specifically Christianity, to the point that one of the characters repeatedly quotes passages from the bible, just in case you forgot how religious they are.
I loved the idea of this book, but unfortunately it's execution just wasn't it for me.