mouse reviewed Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author T. Kingfisher comes an enthralling contemporary …
Certainly another book by T Kingfisher
I wanted something light and easy that would be engaging, and this was. If I were to make a bingo card of this author's go-to tropes, I would no doubt have gotten bingo more than once.
I found it a little too precious, and the main conflict felt like an afterthought. The setting got the most narrative attention, and it was different and fun but simplistic, and feel-good to a fault.
All that said, I enjoyed reading it, and I go back again and again to this author, clearly not because I expect to be challenged and surprised.
I wanted something light and easy that would be engaging, and this was. If I were to make a bingo card of this author's go-to tropes, I would no doubt have gotten bingo more than once.
I found it a little too precious, and the main conflict felt like an afterthought. The setting got the most narrative attention, and it was different and fun but simplistic, and feel-good to a fault.
All that said, I enjoyed reading it, and I go back again and again to this author, clearly not because I expect to be challenged and surprised.
