reviewing 7 recently read books || axiom's end, catherine house, mexican gothic and more!

the story takes off right away and it did engage me immediately but then the pacing settles into something that is more introspective

it is atmospheric it is well written it is creepy and eerie and dreamlike and so all of those pieces were there but it kind of was missing something for me until i started to really think about it thematically

it is a novel where thematically it did some really wonderful and interesting things but in the execution i was left a little bit wanting

i liked the elements that were here and the idea of a chosen one story and a portal fantasy and a fantasy romance like tick on things that i should enjoy this was just really an extended introduction into a series it went on for entirely way too long

i think that she did so in an engaging manner and this was really interesting from the perspective of hearing somebody really passionate about something explain something to you