The Black God's Drums

I can always appreciate novellas. They can do so much in so little time. This one clocked in at about 100 pages and still had great worldbuilding and a complete story.

I wasn't into it enough though to warrant more than 3 stars for me. The author very much has a unique voice which I can appreciate and did fit in with the world, but wasn't something I was particularly into. A lot of the dialogue you had to read aloud to know what they meant. And sentences like:

It make my feet want to dance and it seem like the whole world is moving with me.

It adds to the world but for me it more often than not just takes me out of it.

I can say though - there are some very unique characters to be found in here, most of them female. I actually thought the author was a woman while reading, so I was a bit surprised to see that he wasn't. The nuns were my favorite!

The story itself was okay. Nothing too engrossing. This was definitely more about the characters and the world.