Resurrection

This is another e-ARC that I received from (SF/F)or the culture. It's a dark urban fantasy that centers around magic and revenge. 

I believe I saw that this was an earlier release that later got reworked and released as a Wahida Clark Presents. Which is cool with me, I love when authors get a second chance at presenting what they really wanted. This release had very few errors and was concise, so it seemingly went well! 

When the story begins we have a very timid, damaged, and trapped main character. Throughout the novel we get to see a change over time, where now our MC is strong, purposeful, energized. I think this speaks to the author's abilities with character development. It's not an immediate shift, we see the struggles, and that's exactly what development looks like. 

As an atmosphere I would relate this to a few things. It does have the whole hidden magic from the real world building like in Harry Potter (but no wands!), as a dark fantasy it has a grittier world feel kind of like Underworld with witches, and because of the deep rooted revenge quest it read to me like a magic The Revenant. And this very well could be a villain origin with its vengeful body horror. 

For me, I will say the ended did wrap up a little too quickly. With a vast majority of the story taking place in a single setting, it just kind of slams you into the ending. If the overall climax had been mentioned earlier in the book, I think it would have fit into its trajectory better. But those are just my personal thoughts!

Absolutely worth your time, effort, and money to read this book.