Mini-review: A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft
"Back in the days when wishes still held power". This time, I will not make a full review but I would rather like to focus on one of the aspects I really enjoyed in my latest read, A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft. The premise was a tad misleading as I thought I was going to read a murder mystery book with some magic sprinkled on top. However, it becomes very clear that the protagonist, Lorelei Kaskel, isn't the greatest detective out there since she is rather bad at making friends and keeping up polite conversations. She is on the other hand extremely well-aware of how she is perceived in society and over a five year period she has fostered a real hatred to Sylvia von Wolff, her academic nemesis. But where Sylvia divulges all of her time to magical beings, Lorelei spends her time on folklore, collecting and transcribing myths throughout the magical realm that she inhabits - and this is where Saft does something I haven't seen before. Lorelei often reflects ov...