![]() ![]() ![]() If you’ve read romantic fantasy before, then you pretty much know what to expect. I barely understood what was happening in the battle climax, and I wish the ending had an additional 10K to flesh out the story. Everything happens in the last 10%, and the final battle isn’t given enough time to breathe. Nothing really happens in the first 30%, but this didn’t bore me as I was engaged by Miles’s first person narration and the world-building.Īs I mentioned, the slow pacing in the beginning didn’t bother me, but the rushed ending did. ![]() Surprise romantic elements are always welcome to me, and the adorableness between Tristan and Miles allowed me to forgive any pacing issues.Įvery time Miles swooned internally over Tristan (who’s a little too perfect but I liked it!), I swooned as well. ![]() Reading Witchmark, an Edwardian-reminiscent fantasy, produced the exact opposite feeling: unadulterated joy. Okay, you know that feeling when you pick up a romance novel but it turns out that it’s really not a romance novel and the publicity/blurb tricked you? It’s apocalyptic rage. I was right and wrong: Witchmark does have all those things, but it also has a delightful and unexpected romantic relationship at the heart of the story. I expected a run-of-the-mill fantasy with magical shenanigans, toppling of the elitist status quo, and interesting worldbuilding. I picked up Witchmark for my SFF book club and read it without any prior knowledge (I didn’t even read the blurb!). ![]()
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