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A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft

3.0

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This was well written and overall a decent book. I wasn't invested in the characters and it could have been a bit longer at the end to flesh out their relationships. My inability to connect with the characters (and the choices they made) is one of the reasons it took me a WHILE to get through it. Maybe I'm not in the headspace to read a book like this while in a reading slump but I can still appreciate how well-written it was. I liked Loralie despite how pessimistic she is (a consequence of being systematically oppressed) and especially how we get to know Sylvia through her. However, the ending was not what I expected and I was disappointed (honestly I would have sided with the "villains"). While I'm not sure if I will reach for this book again anytime soon I do know it was a well-written book that I might have read at the wrong time.