cerilouisereads's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I wanted to love this book but the pacing didn't work for me and while the world created was vivid there wasn't enough explanation to the worldbuilding. There was also a very problematic ableist trope used for one of the villain characters (see content warnings if you would like to know what it was) and this took the book down a star for me.
Graphic: Death, Torture, Ableism, and Violence
Moderate: Kidnapping, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Racial slurs, and Misogyny
Spoiler
at the end of the book it was revealed that one of the antagonists, the Authoritan, was a person with albinism (described using the ableist slur "albino"). This is a really problematic trope that could have been avoided in a book published this recently
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