You can guess that I wasn’t super impressed with that whole plot, either. I had a few more spoilery notes related to Amari’s missing brother but I will leave those out.All extremely convenient and uninteresting (pg 202).Again, not sure what happened around pg 170 – presumably some sort of magical sport is introduced in an unimaginative way? Because my note reads “compare to introduction of Quidditch.150 pages in and we’ve gone from no concept of supernatural to being most powerful magician ever talking to most evil villain ever….Not impressed by talking elevators – moving along quickly, useless adults, “okay you talk to the evil magician who is 800 years old”, no idea or concept or experience of magic (pg 150).Can’t recall what I was referring to with this note but it seems like a point to be made: The premise is a stretch… why only take four and scrap the rest, instead of sending to their other pick? (pg 135).

Oooh and magicians are terrible 🙄 No wonder!!! If the only ones that exist are trained by evil guy.I had no time to become invested in the character or the world, so that big declaration so early on held little weight or impact for me. Going from Amari not knowing anything about the supernatural world to her being the most magical being in existence before we get a hundred pages in also didn’t work for me.

I’m not into worldbuilding without some stylized prose to go with it.

I found the style stilted, especially when introducing and establishing the world.

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