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I’ve started reading again after a ‘break’ and it just felt flat? It was literally just reading a story but One Dark Window completely changed that.

Everything pulls you in, the world that may seem complex at first but is so written in a way that makes it so easy to understand, the pacing is fast enough that is isn’t boring but things are not developing to fast.

The characters are so beautifully written with multiple dimensions that you first think you know them but learn more about them that changes your perception of them without ‘destroying’ their character. Idk how to explain it they just feel like real people with real problems, insecurities and motivations.

Then the story, it really pulls you in and is beautifully connected. The story has multiple hidden, and not so hidden, meanings and carries a message.

The relationships are also really developed and not just between the main character and love interest but between all the characters. This can be relation between friends, siblings, parent-child, cousins. The romance is also well developed and not to fast and as a reader it is also understandable why the romance is developing. Also I don’t think it was instant attraction to each other between the romantic partners, yes they noticed the other was attractive but there was definitely something else that piqued their interests…..