Review: How I got here is varied but glad I did. This novel had some of the best world building in terms of the vivid descriptions of the differing realms that transition within the quest. The story line is very compelling and structured in a way that embraces movement while building the characters.
Billy is a doink but he means well. Miranda must confuse everyone that interacts with her. She is approximately 12 ish years old but has been living in a mall for 50 years. How is she not insane? Does her stunted physical development embrace the psychological as well? What we get is a 12 yo, behaving like a 12 yo. This misses the mark as does Billy's constant self-recrimination and wholly trusting nature. The people he should trust, he questions and attacks, and the one whom he should suspect, gets the soft hand.
I dunno. I am a bit split on this one. I looked forward to reading this YA drivel yet was frustrated by the obvious bad choices to make an easy story line. Good writing as the whole novel flowed nicely.
This is absolutely the kind of book I would have devoured when I was younger. I really enjoyed all the characters and got attached to Tuac and Swift the most. It definitely took a few chapters for me to really get into it, but once I hit chapter 10 or so I was really into it. However it does have a few problems. This is my first ebook arc so I'm not sure if it's because of that but the formatting was off with huge gaps between lines. It could also do with another round of editing, as I found multiple cases of words being missed out, or the wrong word used (through instead of throw was one example), and in the case of Madam Mayor it swapped between Madam and Madame.