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A review by hiveretcafe
Diamond City by Francesca Flores
3.0
3.5 stars
please be advised that my experience of this book is fraught with problems, mostly on my part. I started reading this and then fell kind of into a reading slump and kind of got distracted by other things. I just couldn't really bring myself to get sucked into it, though at that point it would have taken like a book that I would rate 5+ stars to pull me out of the funk that I was (am) in.
In any case, the synopsis of this book doesn't really tell you anything about what this book is about. Aina is an assassin who is trying to make her own way in the world that she's in. In order to achieve the freedom that she's been looking for, she just has to pull off one last big job. However, everything goes wrong and soon Aina finds herself at the heart of a political conspiracy and needs to go on her journey to finish off the job.
My main problem with the book as I finished this off is that I kind of had a hard time picturing the world that this book is set in. I already have a hard time with visualizing spaces based off written word alone and I hope that in the finished book that there's some kind of map. I managed to get a sort of vibe, but I wasn't really able to grasp a specific vision in my head of what this world looked like.
Also warning, this book contains substance abuse and also giant freaky spiders.
Aina is a really interesting character with convictions and a difficult past that informs the decisions she makes. Kohl, her mentor, is also a really interesting character and you don't really know his motivations until the end.
please be advised that my experience of this book is fraught with problems, mostly on my part. I started reading this and then fell kind of into a reading slump and kind of got distracted by other things. I just couldn't really bring myself to get sucked into it, though at that point it would have taken like a book that I would rate 5+ stars to pull me out of the funk that I was (am) in.
In any case, the synopsis of this book doesn't really tell you anything about what this book is about. Aina is an assassin who is trying to make her own way in the world that she's in. In order to achieve the freedom that she's been looking for, she just has to pull off one last big job. However, everything goes wrong and soon Aina finds herself at the heart of a political conspiracy and needs to go on her journey to finish off the job.
My main problem with the book as I finished this off is that I kind of had a hard time picturing the world that this book is set in. I already have a hard time with visualizing spaces based off written word alone and I hope that in the finished book that there's some kind of map. I managed to get a sort of vibe, but I wasn't really able to grasp a specific vision in my head of what this world looked like.
Also warning, this book contains substance abuse and also giant freaky spiders.
Aina is a really interesting character with convictions and a difficult past that informs the decisions she makes. Kohl, her mentor, is also a really interesting character and you don't really know his motivations until the end.