The concept was interesting, but there wasn’t enough time spent developing anything or anyone. There was so much going on in such a small number of pages. Desdemona makes it home but only saves 21 lives instead of the full 36.” They make it to the second world again where Chaz marries some creature and the person/creature they saved. Then she makes it to the third world somehow and grows 9 tails. She meets some sort of creature named Farklewith? But Chaz isn’t in the second world. She gets really drunk with her friend Chaz because they need to recite poetry, and then they fall to the second world. For whatever reason, this really bothers Desdemona and she decides to go get them back. Her father is paying a tithe of 36 souls to someone who lives in one of the ‘lower levels’ of the world. “A very spoiled girl (but really she’s 28 and behaves like she’s 15) sees her father making some deal with a creature in the fire one night. However, this is how I would describe it: I tried to describe the book to someone at book club and struggled. I finished the book and honestly had no idea what happened. I think that the concept of this book would have been better served by a full novel, or even a series of books. I haven’t read many novellas, but it’s just a mini-novel (as far as I understand it). However, I actually finished Desdemona, which is more than I can say for Ember.Īs I was researching this book after I finished it, I saw somewhere refer to it as “novella style,” which actually makes sense. The last time I did that was for Ember by Brock Adams.
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