Beneath the Rising
3.0 Stars
1-15-2022

Fine? Fine. I had read very high praise for this book, and so perhaps I was expecting too much going in. And it did have competent writing, some decent and well supported twists, and a reasonably fast paced and exciting adventure story. On the downside though, it's a bit too YA, and just a bit too woke (which is really my fault for having been sensitized to this quality by other books that go way overboard on that axis). I also wasn't entirely sure why I was reading the book, besides the fact that it was very cold and my cat was on me and I didn't want to move out of bed. The story is somewhat lovecraftian, but also abandons some of the tenets of the genre (e.g. the main characters should be absolutely fucked, and they should not be able to cast a fireball in order to solve their problems).