Guerric Haché reviewed Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Gearbreakers, #2)
Writing Style Didn't Work For Me
2 stars
I really struggled with the prose and the character coherence in this one.
416 pages
English language
Published Oct. 15, 2022 by Feiwel & Friends.
I really struggled with the prose and the character coherence in this one.
Just relentlessly violent and depressing. I didn't finish it. There's probably a teenager who found this series and it was everything they needed. That teenager has a really rough life.
This is a sentence from the Acknowledgements, and I'm glad she acknowledges it. Because, twin hells, you have been incredibly mean to your characters. And that made the book really hard to enjoy, unlike its predecessor, even if it's written in the same spirit. In Eris's words: « Absolutely rot ».