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Largely incoherent with no real introduction or anything resembling world building. The love triangle felt unnecessarily complicated and the setting was all over the place. Still not entirely sure what happened.
This was such an infuriating book: there were wonderful parts, and "hot mess" parts and they were so entangled it was difficult at times to read. The wonderful: the mystery of the Seekers and the Dreads, their past and their mission. The "hot mess": too many POVs (note to authors - first person doesn't work all the time. stop it. now.), a love triangle, and flashbacks. Oh, and weak worldbuilding. This is set in (I think) Modern-Medieval Scotland, Modern Hong Kong and Steampunk London. See what I
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I did not dislike this book but I also did not think it lived up to all the hype I saw leading up to its release. I found the world building to be rather weak and frankly I was bored by the story and had to force myself to finish it.
Jul 11, 2014
Bethany
marked it as to-read
Dec 23, 2014
karen
marked it as released-into-the-wild
Mar 19, 2016
Jennifer Kronk
marked it as to-read
