A review by cb1984
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Good setting, interesting character dynamics and I really enjoyed the first 2/3 of it (maybe "enjoyed" is the wrong word - it's so dark you can barely make out the words. Trigger warning: everything!). But I found the last third very disappointing. 

There's lots of twists and turns in the last third, but it felt like a lot of them just kind of happened and then we just quickly move on, or they happened off-screen, or they were just written incredibly confusingly in a dream-sequence fashion. Those were all deliberate style choices and I can see what the author was going for and can understand if others liked them, but I wasn't a fan and it really detracted from the book overall. It's probably a 4.5 for the first 2/3 and a 2 for the last third.

The epilogue was absolutely lovely though. Very nice ending.
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