Todd’s Reviews > The Shadow of What Was Lost > Status Update
Todd
is 29% done
I learned that this is author’s first book, I don’t mean to sound like a snob, but it shows. Some events in story are so abrupt it’s jarring. Meet new character, seems interesting, oh nope he got killed. Main character kills a guy and has “a moment” where he feels bad, all of 1 paragraph of very generic stuff, and that’s that. Too many weird names and references, typical 3rd person limited, but clumsy.
— Mar 29, 2025 10:48AM
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Todd
is 29% done
Also events play out rather conveniently. Lots of perfect timing dues-ex-machina is not too satisfying for this kind of story. Also there’s tons of exposition-as-convo which seemed clever at first but now it’s overshadowing who the characters really are, they are just vehicles for barfing out the author’s admittedly cool world-building.
— Mar 29, 2025 11:03AM
