Furtive Dawn
Helen Harper
Overall: 3/5
Plot and themes: 2/5
Characters: 2/5
Writing style: 3/5
Attention-grabbing: 3/5
Furtive Dawn is the last book in the City of Magic series following Charley and Monroe as they try to sort out their imminent supply catastrophes in their quarantined Manchester. The arrival of a billionaire from the outside world gives them their first taste of the outside world in nearly a year. But he's immediately giving off bad vibes and threatening the fragile balance which they've managed to create.
This wasn't bad, it was just a little boring and predictable. Mysterious entity shows up, he has bad vibes and then shocker he's a bad guy wow who saw it coming. I liked the interactions between Charley and Monroe even though it felt like they really just dove straight into their romance after kind of just being tenuous friends at best but whatever I live for banter. Then the ending of it was such erasure of everything that they did during the other two books. They set up a whole community and built it up on isolation and then decided to open it up to tourists basically in the final hour of the trilogy?
So you know, kind of enjoyable as a series but I'm also just bitter that we never got to have the big confrontation scene on Charley's trauma. We just accepted that? Or did I miss it? I don't even know it felt like I missed a lot of it and it was just a lot of build-up for a lot of disappointment. Again, not super amazing just eh.
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