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A review by waterfairy
Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara
2.0
Random thoughts:
- It was honestly a slog at times.
- The world was certainly interesting.. but I felt I was dropped in between without a full understand. Am I missing the previous books? I was floundering at times trying to understand what really happened.
- The characters: interesting characters but again I couldn't get the full picture. How did they look? What was the difference between them?
- MC: Kaylin - God, it's so hard to imagine a MC this clueless. Or very Mary Sue-ish. pretty much liked by everybody despite the huge red sign and her not caring or trying not to understand or work through the signs. It's a running point of acceptance that she fails basic magic lessons because they weren't practical. I don't need a perfect MC but this swings the pendulum in the opposite end which is also frustrating.
- Triggers: Everybody keeps speaking quietly or softly. It was so overused that I was getting triggered. At one point, one character even managed to nod quietly. I didn't even realize you could nod with sound unless you had a bell on you.
I have heard so much about this series.. and in a way I was glad to start because there are 16 books in this series and if it clicked, that means I had a good series to read. I will try the next one but without much hope.
- It was honestly a slog at times.
- The world was certainly interesting.. but I felt I was dropped in between without a full understand. Am I missing the previous books? I was floundering at times trying to understand what really happened.
- The characters: interesting characters but again I couldn't get the full picture. How did they look? What was the difference between them?
- MC: Kaylin - God, it's so hard to imagine a MC this clueless. Or very Mary Sue-ish. pretty much liked by everybody despite the huge red sign and her not caring or trying not to understand or work through the signs. It's a running point of acceptance that she fails basic magic lessons because they weren't practical. I don't need a perfect MC but this swings the pendulum in the opposite end which is also frustrating.
- Triggers: Everybody keeps speaking quietly or softly. It was so overused that I was getting triggered. At one point, one character even managed to nod quietly. I didn't even realize you could nod with sound unless you had a bell on you.
I have heard so much about this series.. and in a way I was glad to start because there are 16 books in this series and if it clicked, that means I had a good series to read. I will try the next one but without much hope.