Reviewed by ladygrey on
Mostly it's just that there's few good moments. There's plenty of tension and conflict and things going wrong and looking bleak. But it's not tempered by moments of solace or comfort or a spare breath of peace. Even the one segment that could be considered peaceful is tainted by lies and uncertainty.
Also, I don't like characters who make ignorant choices. It's understandable and [a:Cinda Williams China] justifies it in the character so it doesn't seem like a contrived choice to create conflict. But I still didn't like it at all. I would have liked the character more if they'd made a different choice.
But the end is really good and I liked how the story unravelled itself. Probably because of the lack of good moments throughout I wanted more time in the resolution. But the climax was cool and a good moment in light of the series as a whole. I also liked that the story was surprising even though it's exactly what you expect.
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Reread: I don’t particularly like characters keeping secrets when it doesn’t really have a purpose. I mean, something is made of it in the plot but whatever and it creates conflict, but it’s not good conflict or interesting conflict. It’s just annoying. How much more interesting to talk about the hex and figure it out and have that conflict of characters interacting and wrestling with it together then wrestle with it alone snd the poof! it’s gone. And I also don’t like when characters are off on their own not interacting. This has like 5 povs and rarely are any of those characters together or talking or anything interesting. Which doesn’t make it a bad book but it’s less interesting than it could be.
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