Daughter of No Worlds

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I picked this one up on a recommendation from a childhood friend – she said it was similar in feel to ACOTAR, and well, it was on KU, so it wasn't like I had to work to find a copy. Ultimately, Daughter of No Worlds felt more than a little stale. A slave girl ends up killing the man who owned her, and rescues herself in order to get revenge. There's magic – moon and sun magic – and a mysterious powerful entity that gets implanted into the main character's mind. That part, at least, was unique!

But what really ruined the book for me was the writing itself. It was so mind-numbingly repetitive, and this book clocks in at 520 pages. It's not exactly short! The sentence structure rarely varied. The main character apparently thought about two things - training and rescuing her friends. That was it. Speaking of training, that's almost what the whole novel is. I think the first three-quarters of the book is Tisaanah training. There's minimal world building, and what there is feels lackluster at best. The romance – the reason I really wanted to read this – doesn't really become a thing until like...the last couple of chapters. There's one fade-to-black sex scene that's almost entirely steamless.

Also I just want to throw this one out here – why on earth would you give the main character a name like Tisaanah and not include a pronunciation guide. I hated her name. Every time I saw it I cringed. Everyone else has relatively normal/easy-to-pronounce names.

I know other people will like this one, but it just wasn't for me.