While the poorest - like Jules Ember and her Papa - must literally bleed themselves dry to pay rent, cutting their lifespan down further and further. The richest, of course, have the most time and can, in theory, live indefinitely. Punishments often involve bleeding a person's time from them, which in this world is the morbid equivalent of paying a fine. not what you first think.Įverless introduces a world where time is currency and a person's time can be drained or added to through blood. Because the mysteries here are interesting, the premise one I haven't come across before, and many things are. It's not a perfect book by any means and Holland does fall into some traps commonly fallen into by debut authors - namely, the huge infodump in the first few chapters, and some confusing descriptions of the world-building and mythology that I didn't really understand for a long time. It's hard to find the hidden gems among the pile. Publishers churn out versions of the same old story again and again. The genre is often tropey and unoriginal. I know you shouldn't go into a book expecting the worst, but these days it's hard not to approach any new YA fantasy without some trepidation.
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