Havenfall

I recently signed up to Illumicrate, a subscription based book club, and this was the first novel I received from them. My first thoughts were the cover looked gorgeous and the concept sounded intriguing - an Inn at the cross-roads between worlds.

This book is very much a YA book, and unfortunately I am not meaning that in an especially positive way. The amount of teen angst in this book is somewhat overwhelming and masking what is essentially an interesting story and world building exercise. Honestly, I would have much rather read the politicking of the various different worlds than the overwrought heartache of the main character, which just got a bit wearing after a while.

It is a shame - there is a good book buried in there. It may have worked better as a novella with some of the more love triangle bits cut out of it. Good reads lacks a granularity to its ratings, so this would probably be a 2.5 based on its potential, but the execution just was not quite there.