I read the first book in this series, What Moves the Dead, earlier this month and was so excited to receive an early copy of the sequel! But sadly I couldn’t finish it. I stopped reading at 55%.

I was over halfway done with the book and barely anything had happened. The writing is just so long winded and there are so many superfluous anecdotes, I can’t. I don’t need to know so many little stories about the main character that literally have nothing to do with the plot. The main character was thinking SO MUCH and for SO LONG, it became very tiresome. There were some anecdotes in the first book, but they didn’t take over the story. The story doesn’t even feel like horror or have a strong gothic atmosphere because all we’re getting is the main character’s random thoughts. The only reason I got as far as I did into the story is because it’s so short and I thought it’d get better faster, but it did not. This should have been a 30 page short story because most of the book is either irrelevant to the main story or super long descriptions of things that aren’t important.

I received a free e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Tor Nightfire and NetGalley for this arc. All opinions are my own.