The Nature of Darkness

I LOVED this book. The Nature of Darkness is such a fun, engaging, beautifully written space adventure!! I thoroughly enjoyed it and I was completely drawn into the universe, characters, story, and the overall atmosphere of all of it together! Short version of my review is this: if you like character driven sci-fi without being bogged down by all sorts of technobabble, GO READ THIS.

Now, here's the long version. I am going to spew all my thoughts without spoiling any story details, so I'll do my best to keep it organized with bullet points:

• The Worldbuilding is fantastic. All of the descriptions of locations and environments were so well done. Each scene in the book was so easy to picture in my mind, just like a movie. The prologue immediately drew me in because of how vivid everything was!

• The characters are all very lovable. There wasn't one I disliked (except the villains, of course, and that's the point), and they were all so well written. The author did a great job of giving the characters distinct personalities, and nobody felt cookie cutter or like an NPC.

• The pacing is so great!! Reading this book was an absolute breeze. Nothing felt boring or like it was dragging, and even though it's science fiction, there's nothing too wordy or difficult to understand. You'll keep reading way past when you planned to stop (I'm speaking from experience lol)