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Down Comes the Night
by Allison Saft
I...have thoughts.
In all honesty I don’t really know how to feel about, ”Down Comes the Night”. My opinion as of now is sitting at a 3 star, but it wasn’t necessarily a bad book, but it definitely read like a debut novel.
THINGS I LIKED
• The writing in here was very good. Very pretty descriptions and metaphors.
• Queer rep! Need I say more?
• This read really fast! It did take me a few days, but it’s because I’m in a reading slump and school is stressing me out. But I read about 250 pages of this in one day, I was very consumed.
• Wren’s character after the 30% mark. She really improved after that and I could actually stand reading about her
• The wintry settings! Very atmospheric
• SEXUAL TENSION = IMMACULATE
• Interesting magic system
THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE
•NOT GOTHIC ENOUGH! I wanted more gothic, more Jane Eyre vibes. I think that was what the author was going for, however it was poorly done! I just wish we got more of it. The wintry setting was on point but unfortunately the gothic setting the author was trying so hard to hit, missed.
• To rushed and dense. This could have easily been a a series, a duology at the least. I love fantasy stand-alones, and these days they’re hard to come by. But this would have been so much better as a duology. We have two good villains, a nice wintry setting, a good start of a romance.
• Una. That’s it, she’s a shitty friend.
• The romance was NOT enemies to lovers, and it surely wasn’t a slow burn. I’ll admit, it was cute, but please please please don’t advertise your romance as something it’s not! It wasn’t enemies to lovers, and they literally fell in love in 70 pages (at least the tension was there in 70 pages, and they had like 3 conversations).
• Confusing world. Absolutely no world building, no maps, and confusing time periods. Sometimes it felt like this was supposed to take place in the 17th or 18th maybe even 19th century, because sometimes the characters talked as such. But other times it felt like 20th or 21st century. Things like arcades were mentioned. It didn’t really make sense.
I just want to know, was this originally a Reylo fanfiction with a Jane Eyre AU? That’s exactly what this book felt like, and that’s not the worst thing ever. Anyways, this was ok, I would check out this authors next book!
In all honesty I don’t really know how to feel about, ”Down Comes the Night”. My opinion as of now is sitting at a 3 star, but it wasn’t necessarily a bad book, but it definitely read like a debut novel.
THINGS I LIKED
• The writing in here was very good. Very pretty descriptions and metaphors.
• Queer rep! Need I say more?
• This read really fast! It did take me a few days, but it’s because I’m in a reading slump and school is stressing me out. But I read about 250 pages of this in one day, I was very consumed.
• Wren’s character after the 30% mark. She really improved after that and I could actually stand reading about her
• The wintry settings! Very atmospheric
• SEXUAL TENSION = IMMACULATE
• Interesting magic system
THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE
•NOT GOTHIC ENOUGH! I wanted more gothic, more Jane Eyre vibes. I think that was what the author was going for, however it was poorly done! I just wish we got more of it. The wintry setting was on point but unfortunately the gothic setting the author was trying so hard to hit, missed.
• To rushed and dense. This could have easily been a a series, a duology at the least. I love fantasy stand-alones, and these days they’re hard to come by. But this would have been so much better as a duology. We have two good villains, a nice wintry setting, a good start of a romance.
• Una. That’s it, she’s a shitty friend.
• The romance was NOT enemies to lovers, and it surely wasn’t a slow burn. I’ll admit, it was cute, but please please please don’t advertise your romance as something it’s not! It wasn’t enemies to lovers, and they literally fell in love in 70 pages (at least the tension was there in 70 pages, and they had like 3 conversations).
• Confusing world. Absolutely no world building, no maps, and confusing time periods. Sometimes it felt like this was supposed to take place in the 17th or 18th maybe even 19th century, because sometimes the characters talked as such. But other times it felt like 20th or 21st century. Things like arcades were mentioned. It didn’t really make sense.
I just want to know, was this originally a Reylo fanfiction with a Jane Eyre AU? That’s exactly what this book felt like, and that’s not the worst thing ever. Anyways, this was ok, I would check out this authors next book!