Samantha Johnston's Reviews > Sign of the Eight

Sign of the Eight is your classic good versus evil, fight for the future of the world kinda story. We meet our two main characters, Tristan and Martha (evil and good, respectively) who have just come back to this world after 800 years. Their job is to find 6 fighters (hopefully 3 for each side, but not necessarily) in order to determine if the world will carry on as it is or not. We spend time with each of the fighters, getting to know their story and really care for them. They come from all walks of life, and each have a different desire for what happens next.

I think the premise of this book is good. I really cared about the stories these characters had and the lives they led. I think it’s an important story to introduce to teens to help them through their experiences that we don’t often talk about. My main issue with the story is the grand battle was terribly short and very anticlimactic. I think this story would have done better as a general fiction character study, rather than try to incorporate the fantastical element.

Content warnings for highly inappropriate relationships.

Overal, I give this book a 2.5/5 - rounded to 3 for goodreads. I just didn’t mesh well with the genre it was written in, and could have done stronger as something else. I really loved the character arcs though.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an advanced ecopy of this book in exchange for an honest review.