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Not as good as the first book, I read the author got bored with the series by this book and it shows. It's still fun though and how many extremely self aware urban fantasy series with lesbian anti-heroines are there? Not many.
Like a 4.5? I had some issues with it but I'm excited to continue. I might roll it up depending how I feel in a week...
love the concept but the writing is giving me a headache so disjointed and strange. I think Joyce Carol Oates is not for me I didn't like the short story collection I read from her either.
Solid but not much more.
The world is interesting, but unfortunately I don't feel the author is confident enough in their own writing to pull off a fantasy story. Whenever there is a conflict that is bigger than interpersonal, it happens off screen, or is cut short. Which results in a. a rushed feeling climax and b. the paladin character coming across as kind of a huge loser (which i guess was kind of charming but nto sure if it was intentional).
The character interactions (Which, if you take this as a romance more than a fantasy should be more important anyway) are mostly good, but I found the development also a bit sudden towards the end.
Though the leads really needed to have sex at some point. It can be offscreen or not, I don't really care, it's not that I wanted to read a sex scene as much as I feel that the several scenes that seem to have almost-ended-in-sex in the end have no resolution.
So this basically results in a climax that is the leads agreeing: they are in love, then a lackluster plot resolution, and then nothing. There was no real climax emotionally or plot wise. So , I don't know, it wasn't bad or anything, but it kind of was lackluster.
All that said, this is still a head above most lesbian romances. It's solidly written for the most part, and the characters are likeable.
Really fun interpretation of lovecraft myth. It is left a bit open at the end, like there is a sequel planned, but I couldn't find anything concrete on it for now. I probably wouldn't have picked it up if I knew this as I don't like starting unfinished series.