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This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede
3.0
slow-paced

Thank you Wednesday Books for the gifted copy.

*sigh*

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I hoped for more y’all. Did I have too high of expectations? I don’t know, but this didn’t hold everything I wanted.

Once of my biggest issues was lack of plot. It’s very meandering and didn’t feel like a lot of thought was given to it. And the world building and magic system still felt out of my grasp. As if I was missing some bigger explanation that would have made everything make sense.

There was some good banter (like book one) between Alessa and Dante. I do think they’re a great match even if I thought things were up and down. They eventually made some strides and the ending does put you through an emotional ringer (regardless of the fact I wasn’t too emotionally rung because of my other issues).

Not the conclusion I was totally after, but I felt like it did wrap things up well enough to give a solid ending.

Overall audience notes:
- YA Fantasy Romance
- Language: some moderate
- Romance: 1-2 closed door
- Violence: moderate