David Portnov

The intrigue to keep going just wasn't there. I wasn't looking forward to reading it every time it came up on my rotation.

I wasn't interested in any of the characters. The world was mildly interesting, but I didn't care about the story.

2.5 Stars

How long do you give a book before dropping it? My answer is about 20 percent, which is where I dropped this one. I didn't absolutely hate it, but it just wasn't doing anything for me. It was amusing at times, but it was also boring quite a bit of the time. Ignatius is a character you understand immediately and he just... lives. That in itself is fine. I like overexaggerated characters. It's just that there is no real depth to anything that happens in this book. It's just standard satire. I guess I'm one of those people who was not that into it.

It just very YA to me, not that that's a bad in general. That didn't really appeal to me. I also wasn't hooked by the main character. She wasn't very interesting to me beyond her revenge quest.

It felt like The Last of Us without characters that I actually cared or knew anything about.