A review by qalminator
A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files

2.0

Well. That was a thing. Since it's Files, the writing is quite good, as is the world-building. But. Did we really need so much visceral detail? Not just the unnecessarily detailed sex scenes, but the long, drawn-out descriptions of organ removal, etc? Maybe that was just being true to the Aztec legends and/or history this is built on, but, yick. I really could have done without it.

It ends on a notable cliffhanger, but I don't know when I'll feel up to the second book, if ever. It's an extremely bleak, disgusting world Files has created, and I don't feel like spending any more time in it right now.