whatthedeuce's Reviews (1.39k)

At first, I found the world building really cool, but the farther the story went, the more the mystery just fucking confused the hell out of me. And it was so annoying every time Io thought she had uncovered the real culprit only to find out she was wrong. I ended up not caring about basically any of the characters besides Nico, Chimdi, and Edei. The concept of other born with various powers related to gods was a fine concept, but again, they just became so fucking confusing because they were so many types of other borns mentioned. I lost track of what their powers were, what gods they were connected to, etc.

I tried this after finishing The Black Witch this past weekend. I raced through that 600+ page book yet felt this one really dragged. I just didn’t care about Tessla at all and found her super irritating. I was also sick to death of the repetitions about her and Vale’s affinities calling out to each other or whatever. We get it. They both have fire magic. No need to beat us over the head with that. I got 60% of the way through and decided I just didn’t wanna waste anymore time on this prequel. I’ll still give whatever’s after The Black Witch a try though and hope I go back to enjoying the story.

Loved the book starting off from a tortoise’s viewpoint. I thought it boded well for a quirky and charming mystery, but nope. It quickly devolved into boredom and confusion for me.