Review: The Grim Company

The Grim Company by Luke Scull
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Not terrible, but not great. Some neat large-scale world ideas, but nothing has any believable depth to it. The characters are all pixellated caricatures of themselves, and the dialogue is horribly stilted; try and read any of it out loud and you'll end up giggling in all the wrong bits. I was amused by the young lad who desperately wants to Be A Hero And Save the World, but he's all comic relief and no substance so far. For all that, I might have stuck with it to the end just to see how those interesting ideas played out, but it's the first book of 3, and I don't think I'm willing to wait that long.

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