Rose-Anne
The second half was worth getting through the first half, because it got harder to put down as the book progressed. That might be on me because I left such a big gap between reading Senlin Ascends and reading this one and for the first while I was lost and trying to remember all the back story.
I feel like for me, I can't get to the 4 star mark with this book because I'm one of those people who sees the story in my head like a movie while I'm reading and lots of times when entering a new scene the movie flickered and went blank. I'd have to re read a few times trying to get an idea of what the surroundings looked like. I don't think most people would have got tripped up on that, and probably it's better the way it is because if Josiah had done much more world explaining, the book would have been far too long.
The plot is definitely intriguing and I'm going to read the next in the series for sure.
The second half was worth getting through the first half, because it got harder to put down as the book progressed. That might be on me because I left such a big gap between reading Senlin Ascends and reading this one and for the first while I was lost and trying to remember all the back story.
I feel like for me, I can't get to the 4 star mark with this book because I'm one of those people who sees the story in my head like a movie while I'm reading and lots of times when entering a new scene the movie flickered and went blank. I'd have to re read a few times trying to get an idea of what the surroundings looked like. I don't think most people would have got tripped up on that, and probably it's better the way it is because if Josiah had done much more world explaining, the book would have been far too long.
The plot is definitely intriguing and I'm going to read the next in the series for sure.