Interesting premise but fails to deliver
An interesting premise and alternate world but ultimately this is used to deliver a ho-hum story of star-crossed love. Disappointing.
The change of pace in the second, flash-back part; followed by the change in narrator for the third made the book feel even more disjointed.
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