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A review by hotdogmother
Seven Faceless Saints by M.K. Lobb
4.0
I heard through the grapevine Seven Faceless Saints was a thrilling new YA fantasy and was most likely going to be picked for a book subscription box I like, so I dove right in. I also had it in my brain that it was a standalone novel. Towards the ending (the ending!!!) I realize... well, this definitely isn't a standalone. It's the opposite - the ending really gets you!!!
Saints employs the use of one of my peak favorite tropes, soft boy/angry stabby girl, and this one definitely lands well. Roz/Rossana is the bomb dot com and the kind of heroine we need in our lives. With that said, as much as I loved Roz and Damien, I still struggled with the multiple POVs. They're well done, and this is a mostly dual-POV novel with a few extras thrown in there, but still: a little bit of a struggle.
I had very few complaints beyond the dual POV (okay, maybe the war talk just a little boring - but that's EVERY war talk segment in EVERY book to me - truly personal...) and would really only caution you against this book if you don't like gore, murder, that kind of thing. The trigger warnings for this book are a mile long, so check the author's website for more there.
This is a really good YA fantasy novel, an excellent debut, and a fun series I will continue. My thanks to M.K. Lobb, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, and NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
Saints employs the use of one of my peak favorite tropes, soft boy/angry stabby girl, and this one definitely lands well. Roz/Rossana is the bomb dot com and the kind of heroine we need in our lives. With that said, as much as I loved Roz and Damien, I still struggled with the multiple POVs. They're well done, and this is a mostly dual-POV novel with a few extras thrown in there, but still: a little bit of a struggle.
I had very few complaints beyond the dual POV (okay, maybe the war talk just a little boring - but that's EVERY war talk segment in EVERY book to me - truly personal...) and would really only caution you against this book if you don't like gore, murder, that kind of thing. The trigger warnings for this book are a mile long, so check the author's website for more there.
This is a really good YA fantasy novel, an excellent debut, and a fun series I will continue. My thanks to M.K. Lobb, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, and NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.