I love this series, but man do I just want more to happen. The way these are written on Patreon originally just incentivises dragging the story out and while the extensive world building is part of what I enjoy about the genre, it also wears you down after a while to the point I could (and probably will) literally copy and paste this review onto multiple books.
I love this series, but man do I just want more to happen. The way these are written on Patreon originally just incentivises dragging the story out and while the extensive world building is part of what I enjoy about the genre, it also wears you down after a while to the point I could (and probably will) literally copy and paste this review onto multiple books.
This was such a disappointing read and definitely the worst of the year. The first half had a decent amount of promise and really felt like it could have been something, but it just got worse and worse. Filled with exposition dumps for no reason, heavy overusage of the same phrasing over and over again, and just an overall pretty boring conflict left this feeling flat.
I’m not sure that this book really knew what it wanted to be. While theoretically horror, there was very little suspense or tension. The pacing was off, the prose was hard to handle, and the whole ending was just plain tough to read. It felt like a story that could have been so much better if written by a different author who understood horror better.
It's so refreshing to have a series in this genre just come to a conclusion without dragging it out. While neither this entry nor the series as a whole is perfect, it's very fun and tells a nice, complete story. Definitely worth picking up if you enjoy the genre and are looking for something to get you by until new releases.