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A review by telltalepage
Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier
4.0
This was definitely a decent YA book. I instantly felt connected to Cas and I loved him throughout the whole tale. I also liked Lena.
I found it hard to keep track of all the other characters, especially with so many unfamiliar names and titles being tossed about, amid all the new country/city names. If one fantasy novel could have benefitted from having a map, even a simple one, this would have been it. I couldn't keep track of which countries housed which cities as they were named off and I couldn't really picture the actual settings of basically anything in this story except a few places (the hospital, the Pastor castle) and that really dragged me out of the story. The court intrigue was fun, I guessed much of it but that's part of the enjoyment, but there were still some parts that were confusing to me.
I found it hard to keep track of all the other characters, especially with so many unfamiliar names and titles being tossed about, amid all the new country/city names. If one fantasy novel could have benefitted from having a map, even a simple one, this would have been it. I couldn't keep track of which countries housed which cities as they were named off and I couldn't really picture the actual settings of basically anything in this story except a few places (the hospital, the Pastor castle) and that really dragged me out of the story. The court intrigue was fun, I guessed much of it but that's part of the enjoyment, but there were still some parts that were confusing to me.