A Thousand Steps into Night

DNF @ 6%. Its got that immature writing style typical of YA that I cannot stand. The main character is “so clumsy, so loud (how unbecoming of a servant girl), just the most average girl in the whole village, and her mother ran off, and her poor father the inn keeper doesn't know what to do with her!” So she's the generic protagonist of every “average teenager goes on a magical adventure or is the chosen one” YA novel. The author was doing a lot of lore dumping and info dumping about spirits and legends in this book rather than gradual world building. I typically like a spunky main character who doesn't fit societies mold but this was just written so heavy handed that I found Miyuko more annoying than anything. This book is just not for me personally.

Once again, YA has done me dirty. You offer me a book with a great premise but instead I get mediocrity.