Not for me, but others interested in a step by step adventure story through the underworld might enjoy it. As a series, it has room to grow into it, but it didn’t leave me wanting more, just left me a little underwhelmed by the world. When 24-year old Hanna Heikkinen’s estranged father dies, she reluctantly makes the trip to Northern Finland for his funeral. Interesting start of a world of shaman with power to rival the gods, but even the shaman part wasn’t really fleshed out in this first story. River of Shadows is an adult dark fantasy romance based on Finnish mythology and the underworld of Tuonela. See more ideas about symbols, symbols and meanings, book of shadows. I let a lot go for the sake of the romance story, but the power balance and captor/captured was too much for me to enjoy any romantic entanglement. If youre curious about the significance of. So the emotion was lost on me.įinally, I’ve got to say that an author putting in a line where the character says “now I have agency,” does not, in fact, give them agency. It also started with a big emotional death, but as the story had just started, I didn’t really care about any of the characters. I think the first half of this book is the main character’s journey to the underworld, that was a bit too long before even really getting into the story. It has a lot of my favorite things, dark fantasy romance, the underworld, death as a character, but this one just missed the marks for me. I really couldn’t get into it and found myself not even enjoying the read. Published: January 27th 2022 by Karina Halle
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |