DNF at 12%. When you’re 7 chapters into a book and have no idea what’s going on, it’s time to give up.

I waited on this book to come out for a year and I’m so disappointed! It was unnecessarily confusing. There were so many different terms introduced with no explanation of what they meant. I’d have to read a sentence 3-4 times before I either finally understood what it meant, or just gave up and moved on. There is a way to have an intricate magic system without confusing the reader, just ask Children of Blood and Bone. There was no way that I could remember a million character names, a million different magic types, the colors that coincided with each magic type, and a thousand different places. The writing style was way too convoluted.

The story also skipped around too much. I had no idea how a character got from point A to point E because the writer skipped important details, but dwelled on unnecessary ones that made no sense. I couldn’t even picture what was happening in the book because the scene descriptions were terrible. 

I really wanted to love this book! Two rival Jamaican witches out for revenge sounds like the book of dreams, but it wasn’t written well at all. Sadly, I think I have to give it one star…