Harrow the Ninth

The author wants to tell a complicated story around religion, necromancy, and resurrection in space with a very unreliable narrator. But the author does no world building other than vague handwaves of: God exists. Why should you worship him? IDK. Here are some monsters God is afraid of. Why? Idk. Are they killing planets? Yes. Do I know why? I sure don't, but I would have liked to. The book doesn't make any sense till over 70% of the way through, at which point you will have continuously googled "should I finish this book" at least 9 times. They will say, "But the plot twist." The plot twist was so heavily foreshadowed that it was boring. I probably won't continue this series because, I doubt it gets any better. This is book 2 and I still know almost nothing about how this world works. You shouldn't be forced to wait till the last few chapters for a book to be "good." You can tell a plot twist while leaving the reader interested with some view of how the world around them works.

I really wanted to like this book series but I find them so difficult to read. There's a lot of things I like about the worlds and characters. The story loses me multiple times a page sometimes. Reading them feels like trying to finish a book I've been set as homework.

I have a feeling there is epic story here but it's so hard to follow and makes no sense. I've tried several times and have never made it more than 25% the way through.