A review by themoonchild
Sleep and Spirit by Courtney Thorne

3.0

This arc was kindly provided by the author Courtney Thorne, in exchange for my honest review.
The book does a great job enlightening the tw in the beginning, so make sure you are aware, there's violence, body shaming, homophobia, murder, sexual content, domestic abuse etc.

In general, I felt that the book was fast passed, the storyline was exciting and we see the world through our main character's point of view. The worldbuilding was explained well, and we have our main character trying to escape and have her internal battle trying to figure out her life and options to survive, I like the morally grey trope but I felt that I didn't have enough content on the characters to know them, that only start happening from the last two characters she meets.
I felt that the book could've been more descriptive of those elements.
Our main character has powers given in exchange for future marriage, so she gets more power than anyone around her, but because she was been mistreated psychologically all her life she doesn't believe in herself, and we expect to see character growth but it felt that happened too fast. The end made total sense and it just tells us we will have more and leaves us with the feeling of know knowing what's to come. It still bothered me a little bit that we had 4 possible marriages each having its storyline but everything was given to us so fast, with no option for us to choose or question which one she would pick if she could, it was clear and I feel that it was a missed opportunity to expand more the world and the characters.