Lisa Cole

3.5*

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4.5*

What a beautiful, unique book; I'm blown away.

4.5 *

3.5*.......interesting book with some interesting ideas.

3.5*

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3.5*

Enjoyable but a little too much of the same old.

Fantstic. I was entranced from the beginning and loved every word.

Now I want to read all of Hobb's books.

What an exquisitely beautiful book ‘How High We Go in the Dark' is!
What a moving experience to read it!
Thank you, Sequoia Nagamatsu, for gifting the world with it.

I was really looking forward to this book. I'd heard so many people rave about it. Wow, was I disappointed. It read like mediocre fanfiction and an Avatar the Last Airbender rip off to me.
The characters and their situations/arcs are cliche. I didn't care about any of them.
Ugh, too bad.

A satisfying conclusion to a great series that I am very fond of. ☺

4.5 *

More a 3.5*. Liked bits. Didn't like other bits. Trying a bit too hard to be funny, maybe.
I think my favourite part is the observation of the Deltan humanoids.

I love Vandermeer's prose. He's fast becoming one of my favourite writers. And his stories are always compelling, his vision of our possible future scary and somehow beautiful.

2.5*
I had high hopes for Jade City. I was disappointed. I didn't like the jade power, didn't like any characters, thought the warring gangs thing was stupid.
It's just not my cup of tea. It's the tea of choice for many others, though.

This little book is moving and beautifully written.