Viking Jam's Reviews > The Nightward

Review: This novel is a two-sided coin. Great movement vs. poorly built characters. Fantastic world building vs. wokey trash opinions. Believable magic vs. high technology. Independent and fierce characterization vs. YA blushing and crushing.

Where does this dichotomy leave the reader? Well this reader had fun up until the pronoun bullshjt was inserted with no cogent alignment to the story line. Good thing it was minor in approach and lasted but a few pages. Fug, when does the shjt end?

I am torn between loving the grande questing nature of the story line and not giving a fuk what happens to the characters. That is one of the toughest things to create in any great novel...loving the characters so much that you are constantly rooting for them. Characters that were born with silver spoons in their mouths lessens the ability for readers to form attachments. I will not carry on with this series as the character development needs to see improvement.

I received this ARC in lieu of a review.

Rating: 2.5/5