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A review by godofwar
Book of Night by Holly Black
4.0
surprising myself by giving this four stars since i have some major issues with this book, like:
- the magic system needed a lot more explaining
- i don't know why the book is interchangeably referred to as "the book of night" and "the book of blights" without any kind of comment about it from anyone in-world
- i hate pop culture references in books, and there's a lot of that here (especially mentions of social media, which is the true bane of my existence)
but... i don't know! i really liked the characters. i love the protagonist. and i do think it's well-written. i hope the sequel improves on a lot of the lore/clarifies things, because there's a lot of potential for this to be a really good urban fantasy series. it just needs a little work.
- the magic system needed a lot more explaining
- i don't know why the book is interchangeably referred to as "the book of night" and "the book of blights" without any kind of comment about it from anyone in-world
- i hate pop culture references in books, and there's a lot of that here (especially mentions of social media, which is the true bane of my existence)
but... i don't know! i really liked the characters. i love the protagonist. and i do think it's well-written. i hope the sequel improves on a lot of the lore/clarifies things, because there's a lot of potential for this to be a really good urban fantasy series. it just needs a little work.