A review by tani
Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brissett

3.0

A book that is simultaneously too slowly paced, and too fast. The emotional beats feel strange at points, especially when it comes to Stefonie and Okoni, with the text so matter-of-fact about the horrors she experiences that you start to wonder if you're the crazy one here for just wanting the dude dead. The child soldier issue and the aliens feel like they clash as focal points of the book, with neither coming to a satisfying conclusion. And yet, and I enjoyed the book enough to finish it, and I would look at other works by the author. The ideas are there, it's just the execution that is lacking for me.