A review by onespaceymother
The Iron Tree by Cecilia Dart-Thornton

2.0

I hate giving negative reviews - mostly because I worry authors read these and NEVER LET RANDOS ON THE INTERNET RAIN ON YOUR DREAMS - but I almost set this one down 3 or 4 times. I relented, but still that was hard to finish, which hurt because it had some things going for it. Great fantasy world building. It drew kind of randomly from many sources of folklore, but the plot was basically good and the backdrop was cool as hell. Problems for me were (a) waiting for the plot to actually occur was akin to watching paint dry, and (b) we endlessly talked about characters without actually feeling like we got to know them. This was one of the slowest and needlessly descriptive books I’ve ever read. Pages of useless information. I’ve heard so much about this author, I’m really bummed it didn’t work for me.