A review by laurareads87
The City of Dusk by Tara Sim

Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.

On paper, this is everything I want in a fantasy novel -- multiple perspectives, meaningful and non-tokenizing diversity, interesting system of magic, slow build -- and Tara Sim definitely writes beautifully.  However, this novel doesn't work for me and I've opted to DNF at 20%.  I don't tend to DNF fiction that early unless it's for 'content warnings' related reasons (which wasn't the case here at all!), but with this novel being as long as it is, I'm opting not to keep going.  This is very much a character driven book and I just... couldn't find a way to care about the characters or their relationships with each other at all.  I also question the classification of this book as 'adult' rather than YA.  I'm hesitant to give this a low rating because it's well written and there is definitely an audience for it; I'm just not that audience.