A review by megu
Luminiferos: The Omen of Light by Yana Metro

Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.

DNF'd this at around 20%. It is extremely rare for me to not finish a book, but I could not make myself spend my time on this. It is a "chosen one" story, where a girl has a destiny to save the human world and the Spirit world. She just sort of wanders into the story, and is brought into the Spirit world without much actually happening internally. It's like watching a paper doll stiffly be moved into random situation after situation. The writing is verbose — there are so many adjectives used, and often odd ones at that (like using the word "scent" so often in the first 40 pages that I noticed it). It's another destined girl who goes into a strangely (and over-explained) magical world, without an actual hook for why we're rooting for her... or even why her in the first place. It seemed like the magical world could have some intrigue, but I couldn't take the narrative and the writing.