smilelarke 's review for:

River of Shadows by Karina Halle
3.5

Okay this was over-hyped. I almost DNF’d in the beginning. Literally the first 50% if a hero’s journey. Then 50-70% is a Stockholm prisoner slow burn. 70-80% is just 5 really hot sex scenes in a row. Then the book is over on a weird middle-of-the-action cliffhanger? And I think this secondary MMC is supposed to be maybe good maybe bad, but he just seems all around unappealing? If I had known that there would be a lot of epic world building and low spice, it would have been good. But booktok is fin obsessed?! Obviously I was in once we got to the spice. I stayed up late to finish it. I will be reading the next one-but I’m not happy about it.