Brittle Midnight
Helen Harper
Overall: 3/5
Plot and themes: 3/5
Characters: 2/5
Writing style: 3/5
Attention-grabbing: 4/5
Brittle Midnight is the second book in the City of Magic series by Helen Harper following the adventures of Charley and Monroe in a post-apocalyptic version of Manchester. They've both sort of adopted separate perspectives on survival and what needs to be done to create a thriving society, but their two halves of the city can't really stay separate for long.
I'm taking a star off only for the characters because other than that it was pretty consistent with the first and exactly what you would expect. I'm mad at only the character development because like what the heck we're going to get the culmination of all the romantic build-up without the revelation scene where she exposes her guilt for that whole plot-line with her brother? What was the point of that if not for the dramatic tragic backstory? If we don't get that in the finale of this trilogy I'm really going to be angry, right now it just feels like we missed a critical stepping stone.
But yeah, other than that the magic has been pretty standard and it's just kind of a nice follow-up to the first book. I said previously that I liked how it was fusion of kind of dystopia and urban fantasy and that stands. It's really just a fun read that could probably use some more exposition but is just fine as it is.
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