A review by doctabird
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
4.0
When your book is about ninja priests, you can either go really wrong or really right. N.K. Jemison went really right. Really interesting story that deals with corruption in a very new way. It's not your typical good vs. evil. I'm not even going to attempt to summarize here, because I don't really think it's an easy book to summarize except for.... ninja priests in your dreams!! Excited to read the second/final book in the series.
A few negatives though - The first 6 or so chapters were really difficult for me to get through. I kept feeling like I missed something and had to reread multiple times until I just resigned and kept moving forward. There were just so many names, places, events, customs, and terms thrown out there with little description that I couldn't keep up or keep track. Many of these were explained later in the book (and almost all of them were in the glossary that I didn't discover until about halfway through the book). Other than the introduction of unexplained terms, the writing was difficult to follow at times. Maybe that was just me, but I found myself rereading sentences to understand the content more often than usual.
A few negatives though - The first 6 or so chapters were really difficult for me to get through. I kept feeling like I missed something and had to reread multiple times until I just resigned and kept moving forward. There were just so many names, places, events, customs, and terms thrown out there with little description that I couldn't keep up or keep track. Many of these were explained later in the book (and almost all of them were in the glossary that I didn't discover until about halfway through the book). Other than the introduction of unexplained terms, the writing was difficult to follow at times. Maybe that was just me, but I found myself rereading sentences to understand the content more often than usual.