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Terry Brooks: Child of Light (2021, Random House Publishing Group)

Well, I tried but I don't like it. There's a 19 year old girl, breaking out of a dreadful prison, where she was forced to work under threat of being eaten by goblins. She doesn't remember what was before, doesn't remember her parents or anything and grew up in this prison. The book is written in first person perspective and then she uses phrases like "invasive conviction" or she thinks about "how did we Humans come to be so disdained and marginalized that subjugating us like cattle became our future?" I'm really sorry but that doesn't fit for me. Apart from the language, there is nearly no atmosphere, events keep happening and circumstances change, but really aprubtly and not that plausibly. I stopped reading at only 66 pages -maybe it gets much better, but my patience has run out.