I received an Advanced Reader’s Edition in a giveaway by Epic Reads.
I wanted to like this book so so badly, but when unexplained worlds, too many point of view, and so much, too much slang collided in the form of this book I just couldn’t.
Predictable plot twists, too many cliches without ever challenging or subverting them, and 4 point of view where only one was needed made it so that around page 100 I couldn’t handle any more and started to flip through the pages to see where it led. It led to a place predictable from the moment Emil’s powers manifested and Luna was introduced, or possibly when the baby Phoenix, Gravesend is introduced in the beginning of the book.
I haven’t had much luck in reading Silvera’s past works but figured I would give his fantasy a try since I love that genre, and was so disappointed. He has kept this world in his head for so long he forgets his readers don’t know every intricacy of it.