Status Updates From Dance of the Asuras

It’s a fun book so far. Fast paced but very detailed that keeps me engaged.

I ended up really enjoying the book and I ‘m so curious about next part of the story. For the genre expectations, I would say 4.5 and then for my own taste, I would place it at 4 star. ( YA consciousness is like how the character thinks. Emo enter their thoughts frequently. The way it’s written and broken up. I think this just reminds me of that era of YA fantasy.)

I can admit there are moments where the pov seems absurd. not because pov itself maybe the wording of it all. yeah she’s really attracted him. how it’s incorporated in their shared scenes that aren’t romantic. The banter is trying too hard to be banter for my taste.

I think if I had read this in the 2017s it would fit right in with books like Renee Adhieh’s Wrath of the Dawn etc.

I hit the 40% mark before I became interested in the story. I think Neerali writes a very whole conflict— lot of players involved, world, history, and ambiguity of what they all know. The ending is strong. To me, very interesting and ends well.

I can admit I had a lot of skepticism. Tbh I’m not a romantasy audience. I rarely read it. But I did read YA fantasy with romance in the early 2015s and some of 2017’s. I see a similarity in how romance is centered or contributes to the plot.I think that modern romantasy is very similar to those specific periods with little more adult detail in intimacy. —This is a romantasy that is the genre expectations.