A review by cluckingbell
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin

2.0

I am often a bit miffed by a book when I award it two stars, but this gets two stars mostly because it produced so little feeling in me of any kind. The story and world sound interesting when told in broad strokes, and the plot should have been electric with emotion and horror, but the writing rarely made me feel much of anything, except a twinge at the occasional inconsistencies and the more frequent inauthenticity of characters (e.g., someone being a bit too slow and coarse to ever succeed in their stated profession). Given all that, and an anticlimactic resolution that offered no incentive whatsoever to read the sequel, I won't be continuing the series. However, I may try something else by this author, eventually, as reviewers who weren't thrilled with this book often praise her other work.