A review by lumie
Throne in the Dark by A.K. Caggiano

Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.

I wasn't expecting much from this book. I was looking for a chill, low-stakes kind of story with a cute romance alongside it and from what little I read, this book seems to have it. But something about it just didn't stick with me. The humour was a little bit hit or miss, particularly the funny dialogue. I like that the story didn't take itself too seriously, where it's almost making fun of a lot cliché, but some of the dialogue was quite clunky. 

And ultimately what I didn't enjoy about this was the writing. There's long run-on sentences that sometimes didn't make any sense, with strange word's placement.

A brighter mood was, after all, a much easier way to exist in the world, whether it was kind back to one or not.

One what? 

It's just feels a bit unpolished, like it really could have used a heavy editing hand.

And overall I'm not very interested in the characters. I'm not a fan of

the obedience stone plot line that completely removes the main female character's agency

. And Amma seems particularly ditzy and that's really not my cup of tea.

I'm just not gripped enough to bother wasting the time to read the 400+ pages plus the next book in the series. But I think it can scratch an itch for a lot of people, as long as they curb their expectations.