The Starving Saints

I loved this book. It’s slightly weird and you never really get a full understanding how things work but I could not get enough of it.

There are three points of views in this book and each character we follow is well defined and interesting. It would be hard to pick a favorite. The switches are slow at first allowing readers to get a good hold on the set up but once you get into things there are more switches. This could be annoying, but it really helped set the atmosphere of confusion and claustrophobia. All three main characters are all driven, one by the exploration of wild magic, one by revenge, and one by protection. I really enjoyed each of their personalities and the arcs they took.

I had read another book by this author (The Luminous Dead) which I would recommend reading but it also had some great scenes of claustrophobia and mental confusion. This just shows how good the author is at passing on the feelings of situations to readers. In this new book we also got an almost heady exploration of power and magic woven throughout. Its hard to explain, I was driven to read on like one of the characters was driven to explore a wild type of magic.

This book is going to be one I would read again and recommend to others.