Zamil Akhtar

I received a copy of this book in exchange for a review through Netgalley.com.

The story description drew me in for this one, even though I had mixed feelings about the length of the book. The story started off being told from the POV of two characters, and slowly their backgrounds and the worldbuilding picked up. About a third of the way through the story, I started to lose some interest. I stumbled through a section that seemed very slow, and I didn't see much in the way of why it was needed. At this point I admit I started skimming more that reading. Then I started skipping whole pages. Finally I did read the last 20 pages or so, and of course, by that time I had lost much of the details of who was where, and what was going on. I tried to go back a bit to recapture some of it, but I just couldn't.

I did enjoy the early part of the story, the character and world building. Definitely was the stereo-typical characters, each with their flaws and strengths. I would recommended this to anyone that does enjoy a longer, slow to build story line.… (mer)