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A big disappointment.

The City of Dusk (The Dark Gods, #1) by Tara Sim

November 21, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

On the surface, I can’t really point to any specific reason for my low rating here, so you can write this review off as this simply being the wrong book for the wrong reader, if you want. I do want to say up front that the complaint I’m seeing from most people is that this book “reads like YA”, whatever that means. I don’t agree. This is an adult fantasy book. The characters are younger adults, like age eighteen to mid-twenties, but the writing itself is […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, audiobooks, epic fantasy, narfna, tara sim, the city of dusk, the dark gods

narfna's CBR14 Review No:193 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, audiobooks, epic fantasy, narfna, tara sim, the city of dusk, the dark gods ·
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Easy Breezy Steampunk Mystery-Romance

Timekeeper by Tara Sim

April 22, 2019 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

Timekeeper is a YA novel set in England in the late 1800s, with some historical (mostly, inventions, etc) aspects played with by the author for her version of this world: it has a very steampunk feel to it, and this is only added to by the fact that clocks play a huge role in the story. The clock-towers effectively control and guide the towns around them, and our young protagonist, Danny, is a mechanic of these clocks who can feel the threads of time acutely. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: tara sim, timekeeper

Lisa Bee's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: tara sim, timekeeper ·
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