Review: The Dawnhounds

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This is a 2-star DNF review. That accurately represents my experience with this book.

I barely made it through the first few chapters. The opening chapter was an interesting hook. A crew was returning from exploring distant lands. Something they had brought back with them had infected some of the crew turning them into something....else. The hatches were locked and the uninfected crew was trying to make it home before thirst and starvation took them as well.

And then that crew died.

We moved on to a character that was a somewhat disgraced member of the police. She had been relegated to the night shift "for her own good". We learn little else of interest about this world after that. She has a sexual encounter and runs after a pickpocket.

The story just quickly devolved into something that was decorated with "fantasium" so that it seemed like a fantasy story but was really something more mundane.

The ghost of Dorothy Parker feasted on the rest of the book.

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