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The Ninth Rain (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy, #1)
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Bethany Bee's review
bookshelves: apocalypses, body-horror, dark-fantasy, lgbtqia, read-in-2024, vampires
Mar 14, 2024
bookshelves: apocalypses, body-horror, dark-fantasy, lgbtqia, read-in-2024, vampires
I am but a simple woman: give me body horror and some apocalyptic rumblings and some not-quite-vampires, and I shall feast! The Ninth Rain gave me all of this, and more, so this was quite an enjoyable read.
There's a wonderful sense of history running through the book, thanks to one of the main characters (the wonderful and wonderfully self-serving Vintage) being an obsessive scholar; there are so many tantalizing hints of all the wars fought with the Jure'lia that I was craving every single bit of information -- I would read an actual history of this world, and how much it's gone through.
It's creepy, well-paced, and full of stunning visuals (the corpse moon was a particular favorite). My main complaint is that the character relationships felt a bit weak, overall, but that may be fixed over the rest of the series. Definitely a fun, intriguing dark fantasy, and I look forward to reading the rest!
There's a wonderful sense of history running through the book, thanks to one of the main characters (the wonderful and wonderfully self-serving Vintage) being an obsessive scholar; there are so many tantalizing hints of all the wars fought with the Jure'lia that I was craving every single bit of information -- I would read an actual history of this world, and how much it's gone through.
It's creepy, well-paced, and full of stunning visuals (the corpse moon was a particular favorite). My main complaint is that the character relationships felt a bit weak, overall, but that may be fixed over the rest of the series. Definitely a fun, intriguing dark fantasy, and I look forward to reading the rest!
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Reading Progress
January 26, 2024
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January 26, 2024
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to-read
March 9, 2024
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March 13, 2024
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Finished Reading
March 14, 2024
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apocalypses
March 14, 2024
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body-horror
March 14, 2024
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dark-fantasy
March 14, 2024
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lgbtqia
March 14, 2024
– Shelved as:
read-in-2024
March 14, 2024
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vampires