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Ash (2022, One Door Press)

English language

Published Aug. 4, 2022 by One Door Press.

ISBN:
9781990759031

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4 stars (1 review)

3 editions

Review of 'Ash' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Probably would consider this either a contemporary fantasy or an urban fantasy. Modern era premise, more emphasis on the contemporary/urban life struggles, though they are framed as a penance for not using blood magic, it's not really elaborated on. The fantasy element is more around the mythical entities that fade in and out of the story.

I suspect my reception of the novel is more in lines of "not my genre" than mostly anything else. A literal long decline towards the end that made me note it was a thing that happened, and the "gotcha" of one character's motivations didn't seem like a payoff for me. Plot wise is very bait and switch, to the point where almost anything I say is spoilers. What one would expect of the blurb isn't the prevailing theme. It's different in that regard, and at least it isn't predictable.

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