{"id":9529,"date":"2022-03-25T09:38:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T09:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=9529"},"modified":"2022-03-25T11:52:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:52:05","slug":"86-darkest-before-the-dawn-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/86-darkest-before-the-dawn-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"86: Darkest Before the Dawn & Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The follow-up to the fifth 86 novel<\/a>, Darkest Before the Dawn<\/a> wraps up the team’s United Kingdom mission quite nicely. Less praiseworthy is the introduction of that old trope ‘the romance hits a rocky patch due to lack of communication’. An issue compounded by the fact that…<\/p>\n

Mist<\/a> then retreads that exact same ground with the roles inexplicably reversed. Worse, there’s nothing whatsoever to offset it here since this novel is 95% fanservice content with almost nothing of value happening in it. It’s bad. Really, really bad with the only positive trait (and it shouldn’t<\/em> be a positive trait) being the low pagecount.<\/p>\n

Bad enough that it’s completely extinguished any desire I had to keep reading the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The follow-up to the fifth 86 novel, Darkest Before the Dawn wraps up the team’s United Kingdom mission quite nicely. Less praiseworthy is the introduction of that old trope ‘the romance hits a rocky patch due to lack of communication’. An issue compounded by the fact that… Mist then retreads that exact same ground with the roles inexplicably reversed. Worse, there’s nothing whatsoever to offset it here since this novel is 95% fanservice content with almost nothing of value happening in it. It’s bad. Really, really bad with the only positive trait (and it shouldn’t be a positive trait) being the low pagecount. Bad enough that it’s completely extinguished any desire I had to keep reading the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[535,536,64,62,30,510],"class_list":["post-9529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-535","tag-asato-asato","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t