A.M. Tuomala's The Map and the Territory
You know how sometimes when you’re reading a novella, character development feels rushed/underbaked, and it’s frustrating? Well, this a full length novel that somehow suffered from that issue. Really interesting world-building here, as a young woman cartographer and a young wizard dude in training meet each other in the midst of a worldwide disaster, with cities destroyed in mysterious magical ways (this isn’t a romance, at least not between them: he’s gay and she’s ace), and they go to try and see if they can find out what happened and if their homes are okay. But they end up dealing with politics in one of the cities they stop in, and things king of bog down, and I don’t know, I just wanted MORE from this! I will say there is a very interesting epilogue that makes me want to read the next book in this series (assuming one is coming). The bones of a good story are here but it didn’t totally come together for me. B/B+.
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