Abandoned by Booklikes
Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night!
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Reading progress update: I've read 20%.
So I thought I would never say this, but I am not enjoying this. This may end up a DNF. There is too much going on and we keep getting hit with information bombs throughout this. And there are so many characters and they all have unique abilities due to something called Forging. I am going to stick with it for a bit since I have loved her other works, but this seems like way too much information being thrown at readers with very little character development which makes me sad.
The book is going for a steampunk vibe taking place in the late nineteenth century Paris. I am usually down for that, but with the weird subplots for some characters, and I guess the main plot of Severin trying to get back his house's ring, I just find my mind wandering. And I don't want to smack Chokshi down for include diverse characters, but after a while it felt a bit forced.
