A review by jennifox
Hexmaker by Jordan L. Hawk

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

2.75

I really wanted to like this more than I did. The relationship felt really rushed (they had a lot of sex, but never really communicated). I had a hard time warming up to Owen, which was odd cause I liked him well enough in the last book. He just felt stuffy and oddly unwilling to question societal norms that should have been obviously questionable to someone who's otherwise so concerned with justice. I'm also finding the world increasingly uncomfortable. The treatment of familiars is so bad that it's hard not to see everyone as complicit. And that may be the point, but it's not what I'm looking for from a romance novel.

Also, the third-act breakup was particularly dumb and obvious from the start. The whole resolution to the mystery was unsatisfying. 
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