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The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon
3.0

Shannon has a tendency to put her characters into so many bad situations so quickly that it starts to get exhausting. This book either needs to be much shorter with less drawn-out action, or much longer and have greater stretches of character development and world-building. (For example, if the voyants are so clear-cut and powerful that they can be categorized and plan a takeover of the government, how is it possible that other countries don't believe voyants exist?) It's a wild story, and most parts are fun to read, but it's definitely exhausting to get through.