A review by semmler
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

Did not finish book. Stopped at 5%.
How can this book have such a high rating? The writing is so bad that I thought the first page was a joke, but no, it goes on like that. 
Starting off with this weird side by side narration of a sixteen year old girl fucking someone for the first time and killing someone. The girl being described as a super assassin and then wearing stilettos??? Like, come on dude, how much more of the male gaze can you shove in my face through ONE character? Not to mention that the 'smut' is terribly uncomfortable to read, because it screams 'men writing women'. 

My bad that I picked up this book in the first place, but the summary sounded fun. Assassin in training having to fight of evil but being evil herself, because moral ambiguity. Should have looked more thoroughly into it before buying it. What a waste of money... 
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