Ebook provided by NetGalley for review. Thank you.
I liked the ideas around Emajen and I think it had great potential to be something great however it all just fell a little flat. I feel like overall the book needed at least one more draft and round of editing. The chapters were awkward appearing in the middle of scenes, pacing was clunky, world-building was half-baked, for example why did diamonds cause copper scales? Also why did animals need different names? I'm disappointed we never got a true description of the Natorqua, what we got made them sound like horses with fangs that can purr. What else was cat-like?
I liked the characters but they seemed a little flat and Destiny and Anthony's backstory was a bit hasty and mostly pointless. Once it got going the story's middle progressed fairly well considering how tricky middles are but then the ending was very rushed until it just stopped.
Did the kids ever hear Saddler's story? We the reader certainly didn't. It's implied that his memory is wiped but then suddenly it's not and he's in the middle of everything. Also what happened after Destiny and Anthony got home? Did they ever go back? A few too many plot holes and poorly explained plot devices, the stone that Anthony used comes to mine, it was just there and automatically the solution to everything.
2/5 stars.
Stef Out x
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