A review by wyll
Sanctuary by Matthew Mather

adventurous tense medium-paced

3.0

this is leagues better than nomad. there are still a few things that frustrate me (like how mather does that thing in sequels where they recap the first book; like john connolly said, what are you doing reading books out of order?), but surprisingly, i can find more positive things to say - but we'll go ahead and get my major issue out of the way: i appreciate that massarra and the levantine council are very explicitly stated to be a peaceful group working with a myriad of people across the middle east, but there was that weird part where she seemed to defend ISIS. maybe the wording used was just off and made it seem that way, but it was just weird to me that she's framed as a good person (which she is) but then there was... that. still, it was nice that there was a clear distinction made that islam is a religion of peace ("The Laventine movement was started to begin again the discussion of what Islam means, the peaceful side. We wanted to bring our people together.") it made me SO happy to read this, but again, the 'defense' of ISIS was super weird. but that's really my only issue with the book.