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A review by ortneram
City of Storms by Kat Ross
4.0
To be honest, I thought I was going to DNF this book. The beginning has a lot of info dumping and is fairly confusing. Each character has multiple names in which they're referred to, the world building doesn't entirely make sense to me, and I couldn't really understand the magic system at first.
I decided to persevere a little while longer, and by about the 40% mark, the book actually got quite good. The magic started to become more clear, the world started to make more sense (though I still have a hard time being able to visualize the setting which is unusual for me), and the characters rolls got more clarity as well. Based on what I can gather, the world is in the future, but has reverted in certain ways to a more mideaval time in response to the previous war. I don't know, that's one of the elements that's kind of confusing. However, I'm moving forward based on my previously stated assumption.
Anywho, I wasn't sure if I'd continue on with the series, but now I'm more invested in figuring out what happens. I'm grateful that the story and flow picked up when it did. I'm torn between giving a 3.5 or 4 star rating.
I decided to persevere a little while longer, and by about the 40% mark, the book actually got quite good. The magic started to become more clear, the world started to make more sense (though I still have a hard time being able to visualize the setting which is unusual for me), and the characters rolls got more clarity as well. Based on what I can gather, the world is in the future, but has reverted in certain ways to a more mideaval time in response to the previous war. I don't know, that's one of the elements that's kind of confusing. However, I'm moving forward based on my previously stated assumption.
Anywho, I wasn't sure if I'd continue on with the series, but now I'm more invested in figuring out what happens. I'm grateful that the story and flow picked up when it did. I'm torn between giving a 3.5 or 4 star rating.