A review by slimikin
Finder by Emma Bull

1.0

I can imagine that for those who read the Borderlands books growing up, this might've been a vivid exploration of a beloved terrain, but as a newcomer, I found it mostly boring. The worldbuilding is more quirky-small-town-with-elves than richly textured urban fantasy. The protagonist reads like a middle-aged woman instead of a man in his early twenties. And once I realized Sunny Rico looked rather strikingly like the author, it was impossible to ignore the potential self-insertion.

But while all that would've earned a two- or three-star rating, I bumped this one down even further because

Spoiler

I am really, really, really tired of reading books where the author kills off the most interesting character so the protagonist has a reason to grow/fight/act crazy/get revenge/whatever else the plot might require

. That this book's protagonist, himself, is almost excruciatingly uninteresting in spite of his ability and hard-luck past just adds insult to injury.