A review by warlocksarecool21
Of Blood, Bones, and Truth by T.M. Ledvina

Did not finish book. Stopped at 36%.

dnf’ed around the 40% mark. I had really wanted to like this but i just couldn’t get past the writing. everything is so underdeveloped, the characters feel indistinguishable from one another and the world-building is non-existent. which for a urban fantasy the basic world-building needs to be there. I read the handful of info pages but none of it felt relevant to the story, and I just think that if the history and magic system of a world is going to play a role in the book it needs to be explained in the text. I was also rather skeptical at some of the sociopolitical themes the author was trying to integrate, the humans are oppressed trope is in every fantasy book like this and nothing new seemed to he happening with it, and the whole vibe around it seemed rather blasé for how horrific a thing like that would be, especially since there are no human characters. Basically, it wasn’t anything I hadn’t read before in other urban fantasy books. I wanted to like this since it was queer and seemingly had a lot of elements that I should like but it was not executed very well for me and I think it needed a lot more development.