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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 23, 2020
I feel like I should preface this by saying I read this book and wrote this review some years ago and just never posted it, and who knows how differently I might view it now. But anyway...
This one just never gripped me. The characters were less "morally gray" and more "morally reprehensible," which would've been ok, except that I didn't feel connected to or invested in them. Eli was the most interesting, but I feel like both main characters' villainous ways were the only depth they had; Victor was obsessed with getting revenge on Eli, and Eli believed he was on some sort of holy crusade, and that's all I could tell you about either of them. The omniscient POV and the constant jumping around timelines probably didn't help with my disconnected feeling either.
I didn't hate this, I just didn't see all the same things in it that many other readers did.
Rating: 3 Stars
Original Review @ Metaphors and Moonlight (link in profile)
This one just never gripped me. The characters were less "morally gray" and more "morally reprehensible," which would've been ok, except that I didn't feel connected to or invested in them. Eli was the most interesting, but I feel like both main characters' villainous ways were the only depth they had; Victor was obsessed with getting revenge on Eli, and Eli believed he was on some sort of holy crusade, and that's all I could tell you about either of them. The omniscient POV and the constant jumping around timelines probably didn't help with my disconnected feeling either.
I didn't hate this, I just didn't see all the same things in it that many other readers did.
Rating: 3 Stars
Original Review @ Metaphors and Moonlight (link in profile)
