Review: Dark Rise

Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I'd never read a C.S. Pacat book before, but Jay Kristoff says Pacat is friends with him, and on that basis I was ready to finally try one of her books. (As I understand it, Pacat is genderfluid and uses both she and he pronouns.) Unfortunately, it seems I set my expectations too high on this one and only opened myself up to disappointment. This book seemed pretty promising with its dark historical fantasy setup in early 19th century London, a setting similar to V.E. Schwab's A Darker Shade of Magic, but unfortunately, Pacat wasn't able to interest me much in his characters. Or at all, really. I kept finding myself wandering away from the pages of this one with embarrassing regularity, which is a shame because I checked out both this book and its sequel together - that's how high my expectations were, I guess. But sadly, it's an official DNF, and I'm not sure I'll be going back to try any more of Pacat's other works. Though at least she's got a lot of good friends like Kristoff and Shelley Parker-Chan whose works I'll continue to read and enjoy...

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