Providence by TurtleMe
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Okay. This book is kinda a hot mess. And while it DOES have enough good stuff to keep it afloat and cool and definitely worth reading, the bad stuff is still truly annoying.

Like the broken, broken again, broken yet again magic ass-pulls. This makes me think we're going back to the truly mysterious magic system days where it's all built on "if you just believe hard enough, you'll get it", but without faith. Just the plain old somehow Palpatine came back, but for magic rules. Like Cecilia. Or rather, all Cecilia. And while the whole fate mastery bit was cool on the surface and a bit deeper, it's still TOTALLY an ass-pull.

So yeah, between that and just a tad too many PoVs that I didn't care about--sorry, Nate--I just kept hoping to get through the main plot for the sake of just MOVING ON at last.

But fortunately, we do. And it was pretty cool, despite all the annoying bits. And so I'm not QUITE done with this series since there's another one coming out. :)

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