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Read: 27th of September, 2022

Alma Katsu's The Taker reads like a historical fiction, alternating between three timelines telling the tale of various characters. It sprinkles a little bit of the supernatural and paranormal around without concrete explanations (or any explanation at all even, except for the barest of flimsy ones).

The writing was good, a tad taxing and weird, explaining things in a second or third person POV. The love story was so so and honestly even though the plot was okay, I found the whole execution boring. I went into this thinking I was getting a darker version of V. E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue (which I loved!) from the blurb; but alas, nope.

I struggled to finish this honestly... So I'm holding on to my recommendation until I give the second book a try, hoping the premise gets better later on in the plot.