Witches Steeped in Gold

I really wanted to love this book. Samantha Shannon raved about it and I typically like her recommendations however I couldn't get into this book. The characters were flat and you are shoved into this new world with limited background. I'm a huge fan of extensive world-building and I do not mind info-dumping to get there either. This book had basically no world-building and we are left scrambling trying to figure out what is going on and who the characters all.

And this is a weird thing but I'm all about strong female characters but I got over 100 pages into this book and there were basically no male characters in this book. Yes, they mention fathers but I do not find it realistic at all to completely remove male characters from your book.

Hopefully, others are able to get into and love this book, but I was not one of them.

Caribbean Witches. Sound so cool

I've never wished I'd DNFed a book so bad.

This was a slog to get through. I struggled with the Prose, to understanding the characters and apart from the few times where Ira made herself a badass and snarky, both the Main Characters were the same, mediocre, the only one I almost liked was Ira, and then it was in small bursts

The conflict was predictable, sometimes forced. Jazmynne was boring, stupid. Ira slightly better with more of a drive. The side characters were Meh.
The hint of the love interest came about with a drastic change to one of the main characters and I hated it.

The choices that were made were foolish, at times forced for plot reasons. And the Plot... predictable, boring. If you like a long slow burn plot, with an average climax, then this book is for you. But it wasn't for me. This book isn't driven, not a lot happens, it doesn't have a lot of character and while the world was interesting, it failed to engage me.

What I do wish is that the worldbuilding has more of an explanation. I was confused for most of the time until I ignored the world entirely, by far this books strongest point.

0.5 stars.

Pretty boring and hard to get thru. Nothing much was happening throughout. The two main characters are so much alike it was hard to tell which one was speaking when their name wasn't mentioned right away. Had high hopes for this one but overall just ok. I don't think I'll be continuing with this series.