Jennifer’s Reviews > The Drowning City > Status Update

I want to like this book so much more than I do, and I feel so guilty for that. It has a non-white, non-Western complexity of cultures; it has strong female characters who show that strength in different ways; it has elemental magic and ghosts and one of the most creative uses I've seen for gemstones. And yet. I feel as though its soul has been bound in a diamond, and the life is missing from it.