And the crowd is…confused??

Want to start this by saying, overall I did enjoy this book. It was intriguing and had a ton of information that always kept me guessing. However there were definitely some aspects that left a lot to be desired.

Starting with the characters; sometimes they were really fleshed out while other times we know next to nothing about them. Unfortunately, most of the characters we know nothing about are the female characters. Every female character in this book is defined by who they are related to. Even in the glossary, there are multiple characters listed as “so and so’s dad” but not one character has a named mother. And don’t get me started on Relucia 🙄

Next, there’s a lot of inconsistencies in the book. Without spoiling anything, there are quite a few moments where something is mentioned in one scene as being taken away or no longer viable and a few scenes later that thing is somehow back as if it never left ?? None of these were major or truly important to the story, however it definitely broke the immersion.

And last, the book is just unnecessarily long. There was no reason for a number of scenes and the amount of detail was suffocating at times.

Despite all of this, I still thoroughly enjoyed this book and am looking forward to the next one. Again without spoiling anything, I’m nervous about actually liking the next book because of what this one set up in the end but I’m excited to try it out. I love Vis’ story and how true to himself he always is. I hope Islington does a better job at fleshing out his female characters in the next one 🤞🏻