I started this on Thursday, got to page 18 and then lost interest. Rambles Upon Rambles folks just messing with my reading streak and creating backlog.

This was a chore. Not because it's a bad book or the writing is bad. Oh contraire. But for the love of god, do we need three paragraphs to describe the sky? And then another couple paragraphs to describe blood.

Also the stream of consciousness that is Koh was interesting at first but a whole lot of unnecessary descriptions.

It was beautiful even beneath all the rambling. Hidden in the extra paragraphs, a beautiful if not entirely predictable story - both doublecrosses and big shockers were obvious from the jump (even for a novice in the Stormdancer series). The Guild, The Twins (who actually sits on the throne) and Koh.

Still, as my first foray into Jay Kristoff's work, I am weary of these longass descriptions. We get it, there is air pollution in Shima. We get it the mountains are beautiful and the sky is blah blah blah. This Novella could have been 90 pages.

There is beauty in being succint.And getting to the point and you can still write beautiful prose without being long-winded.