There was something almost fanfic about it - a feeling that we are visiting the world with which I’m expected to be familiar through, perhaps, an earlier story, the world that therefore needed little but basic sketching out. In the end, it really seemed like a lengthy set up for a larger story, an extended prologue, an overlong first chapter. Light on the plot, the characters development and worldbuilding - but with enough snappy banter (almost romcom style, really) to last me for at least a month. Because this light and airy novella flowed well, but left me unimpressed and unsatisfied in the end precisely because of how light it was.
It needed to be a full fantasy novel but ended up confined in a light novella which did not do it justice. This is a story brimming with so much potential, but in the end it felt not quite realized.
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