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A review by katyanaish
City of Night by Michelle West
4.0
I'm really enjoying this series - don't be fooled by my slow read-time on this... I've been insanely busy this last week, but I'm carrying my kindle everywhere with me, to steal snatches of time to read every time I get a chance.
The opening was a bit of a slog - we're introduced to a new character in an extended prologue, and I feel like spending that much time focused only on Angel was ... unnecessary. The couple key bits of info we got - where he's from, the mission he's on, that the god-born believe there is a great and terrible war coming - were sparse enough that I wasn't sure it was worth the time. We could have gotten all that, and met with Angel, in a much smaller chunk of the book, that let the other characters play as well. Especially given that 3 years had passed since the previous book, I'd just rather have gotten some fill-in of that time, instead.
But that's my only quibble.
I cried, I laughed, ... but honestly, mostly I cried. Lots of horrible things happened in this book. This world is headed down a dark, dark path.
I'm very interested to see Jay develop her abilities, because they seemed to come up short for her a lot in this book. But I'm already partway into the next, so hopefully I'll see some training soon.
The opening was a bit of a slog - we're introduced to a new character in an extended prologue, and I feel like spending that much time focused only on Angel was ... unnecessary. The couple key bits of info we got - where he's from, the mission he's on, that the god-born believe there is a great and terrible war coming - were sparse enough that I wasn't sure it was worth the time. We could have gotten all that, and met with Angel, in a much smaller chunk of the book, that let the other characters play as well. Especially given that 3 years had passed since the previous book, I'd just rather have gotten some fill-in of that time, instead.
But that's my only quibble.
I cried, I laughed, ... but honestly, mostly I cried. Lots of horrible things happened in this book. This world is headed down a dark, dark path.
I'm very interested to see Jay develop her abilities, because they seemed to come up short for her a lot in this book. But I'm already partway into the next, so hopefully I'll see some training soon.