Reviews with content warning for Torture - The Stardust Thief

I forced myself to listen until track 48, to 63% but then couldn‘t continue. It started out promising, the writing is good, but it‘s inconsistent and there are more and more torture scenes and that’s the one thing I don‘t want to hear or read because it‘s a not why I read books. Also the audio recording is inconsistent. There‘s a male and a female narrator, but they switch chapters and the key two characters, but then they read all other characters of course, but not one per character, but each one reads all the characters in their chapter, and in the next the other one reads the same side-character in his chapter but of course then in a different way, which makes it confusing and annoying.

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adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

What an adventure! Chelsea Abdullah is now one of my favorite fantasy authors. Her imagination is out of this world and I was so immersed in the desert world that she created in this book.

There is a lot going on in this story and some chapters were very jam packed, and I had to take breaks from reading to ruminate and make sense of the story.

Overall I cannot wait for the second book in this series!

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