Taschima's Reviews > The Longest Autumn

This book had potential, if only the characters weren't so boring.

The concept of the seasons being embodied by gods is interesting. The gods must each run the world at certain points in order to keep things going, and the one time one thing goes wrong the world almost ends. However, we were so into the mystery of "who destroyed the magical mirror that acts as a portal" that we didn't even get to explore other things such as maybe giving us some flashbacks into the gods realm in order to see what exactly this woman does with her life the other time she is not being a literal ferry woman in between the realms. It doesn't seem like the gods do anything really, other than pleasure concubines and botch investigations. The "romance" was also major ick between Autumn and the MC, since Autumn is barely a character, they come off as being the biggest prick in history. On the good side, there is a serious enemies to lovers situation going on, like the guy is truly on the shady side, and there are multiple romances that show things such as asexuality rep, multiple partners, etc. So points for the rep, but again why are the characters so damn bland? My plain toast has more spice.

Cool concept, should have explored some things deeper and with more excitement.

PS; I really liked the narrator, if it hadn't been for her voice I probably would have DNFd. Her voice is soothing (I did have to read at 1.75x-2x since she reads a bit slowly, but at the faster speed her tone still comes through without sounding like a robot).