Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn’t want to be Rin anymore — not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only way out is to join another tribe, a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest. Killing a colonial soldier in the woods isn’t part of the plan. Neither is spending the winter with Tiernan, an immigrant who keeps a sword with his carpentry tools. His log cabin leaks and his stories about other worlds raise more questions than they answer. Then the air spirit Suriel, long thought dormant, resurrects a war. For Kateiko, protecting other tribes in her confederacy is atonement. For Tiernan, war is a return to the military life he’s desperate to forget. Leaving Tiernan means losing the one man Kateiko trusts. Staying with him means abandoning colonists to a death sentence. In a region tainted by prejudice and on the brink of civil war, she has to decide what’s worth dying — or killing — for.
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The Call of the Rift
Jae Waller
I tried really hard to finish The Call of the Rift but I just couldn’t get past 50%. The pacing of the book was all kinds of wrong, and I still wasn’t sure where the book was really heading when I eventually put it down. Plus, I didn’t even mean to DNF this book, I swapped it out for a different book for a while, and 4 books later I just have no motivation to go back to it.
The main issue was that at 50% in I still didn’t know what was going on, and a lot of the made up language was still confusing to me. The world building itself was fantastic, and clearly well thought out by the author. But I did struggle a lot to get into this new world because there was so much information and the plot didn’t assist with the introduction to it. I felt that it was similar to a history book which turned me off. The pacing was all off and I just wasn’t enticed to continue reading.
I’ve kept this on my kindle just in case I want to go back to it, but at this point I just don’t have any interest in it.
POSITIVES
+ World building
NEGATIVES
– Slow pacing
– Struggled with the new world
I received The Call of the Rift by Jae Waller from the publisher via Edelweiss. This is an unbiased and honest review