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A review by kingdino
The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I really wanted to like this book, but it’s just a bit of a mess. It takes about 1/3 for the characters to actually do something and then another 100 pages until they finally go looking for what this entire book is about. And I just really didn’t care.
I like 1 character. I didn’t dislike the other characters, but i just simply did not care enough about them.
The magic system was very vague to me. All we know about it is that it comes from the mines and that it can do *stuff*. I think that’s also the reason I didn’t care when the twist happened.
I would also like to mention that I did not know this was a duology when I bought this book and now i’m kind of upset about the ending because I don’t want to read the second book but I also don’t want to leave this story unfinished. Maybe I will read the second book sometime in the future, but not right now.
And lastly, I don’t think this story should be tagged as lgbtqia+. Yes there is a queer character, but it’s not a main part of the story (i think it actually only gets mentioned once that he likes men). Just because there is a queer character does not make a queer story.
I like 1 character. I didn’t dislike the other characters, but i just simply did not care enough about them.
The magic system was very vague to me. All we know about it is that it comes from the mines and that it can do *stuff*. I think that’s also the reason I didn’t care when the twist happened.
I would also like to mention that I did not know this was a duology when I bought this book and now i’m kind of upset about the ending because I don’t want to read the second book but I also don’t want to leave this story unfinished. Maybe I will read the second book sometime in the future, but not right now.
And lastly, I don’t think this story should be tagged as lgbtqia+. Yes there is a queer character, but it’s not a main part of the story (i think it actually only gets mentioned once that he likes men). Just because there is a queer character does not make a queer story.