bethanyangharad’s Reviews > Half City > Status Update

Really easy book to read and the way the information dumping, world building, and character introductions are recurring is actually quite easy to that. Even though I’m finding a lot of similarities with other fantasy books, especially those with the dark academia kind of vibe, I’m still finding myself intrigued because it’s not exactly the same. There’s enough difference here that I’m quite into the story.

First time immediately drawn into this fantasy world a lot of things are feeling quite familiar to me. First of all the big chasm, feels very much like the rift from grishaverse. The forbidden area on school grounds feel a lot like the forbidden forest from Harry Potter. I’m not claiming that Kate Golden has copied anything. I’m just saying that things feel familiar - also, I am enjoying it.