I also abandoned A Darker Shade of Magic, despite finding the worldbuilding intriguing. I've heard the 30% mark is where it starts getting good? I never went back to confirm.
I quitte enjoyed Stiefvater's Raven Cycle books, but found The Raven Boys merely OK (book 2, Dream Thieves was the one I liked, and the one that convinced me I wanted to read on), and her prose definitely took some getting used to -- it's an acquired taste, I think...
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Date: 2018-04-27 08:27 pm (UTC)I quitte enjoyed Stiefvater's Raven Cycle books, but found The Raven Boys merely OK (book 2, Dream Thieves was the one I liked, and the one that convinced me I wanted to read on), and her prose definitely took some getting used to -- it's an acquired taste, I think...