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The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

I don't really want to give this one a number rating, because I know it's not really for me but I found this book so damn frustrating. The prose is undeniably good but it's also the kind of prose I just find hard to read or enjoy, I simply prefer more concise writing and dislike when there is dense descriptions. I know, I KNOW, that the author is just trying to build a scene but it was not working for me at all.

I just wanted to like this so much more, I feel like it had all the elements that should have spoken to me, but it just didn't hit. Alas. Another book for class down.