I'll start off with stating that I would definitely recommend that you read this book. That being said, I gave it three stars because while I like the story, I found it to be.... overly descriptive. I don't often say that about books, but I can't think of any other way to put it.The issue is that the author spends WAY too much time breaking up the narrative to "describe" stuff- how the water drops look, how the darkness feels, how the fungus looks, etc... it feels like you get 3 pages of paragraphs describing someone or something in minute detail for every page or so of actual story narrative. I found it to be very jarring to be jerked out of the story like that. I definitely enjoy when an author takes the time to set the scene, but I think in this case, it just goes a little too far.I found I had the easiest time following the story when I just scanned through the overly descriptive parts to get a sense of the setting and then picked up the story in between. I'm looking forward to more work from the author though hopefully with a little better editing.
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