Servants of the Storm by Delilah S. Dawson
Rating: 🍁🍁🍁
Overall: A southern YA gothic horror with a heroine who refuses to accept the status quo from herself or anyone/anything else. Creepy, slightly WTF adventures ensue.
The Good Stuff:
1) One of the best aspects of Servants of the Storm is the very real, almost tangible sense of place. As someone who grew up in a tourist destination, I can vouch for the "pretty face-gritty back" dynamic of Savannah - you show the tourists what they want to see and give them what they want so they'll spend their money and maybe it will trickle into the rest of town. You get the sense that Dawson is writing from a place of knowledge/experience here.
2) Holy atmosphere, Batman! While I was reading Servants, I could feel the oppressiveness of an oncoming storm, with a sinister and mysterious undertone that kept me reading to find out what would happen when the storm struck and all hell broke loose. Of course, that may have had something to do with the fact that I read it during a massive thunderstorm, but hey - it worked!
3) What a gorgeous cover! So creepy and beautiful and disturbing...
4) I like that Dovey doesn't just accept the way things are. She pushes and digs and tries to find her own answers to things, even if that ultimately leads to trouble.
The Not-So-Good Stuff:
1) There's a lot of accepting things on faith in Servants, which I don't normally have a problem with (I can suspend my disbelief with the best of them). But even I had trouble following the reasons/rationale behind some of Dovey's decisions and the events that took place. I respect her for making those decisions, but I honestly couldn't understand them. Maybe that says more about me than about Dovey, though. I don't know.
2) Another love triangle, and a fairly lackluster one at that. Yay.
Caveat: I won an ARC of Servants of the Storm through a Goodreads giveaway.
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