All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters paints a hauntingly gothic dark academia about possession and the lengths people will go to hone their craft.
The descriptive writing for settings? Fantastic! Waters once again proves that she is a wizard at creating eerie, dread-inducing atmosphere and there are passages in this book that are so achingly beautiful.
It’s the character writing that fell flat and felt incredibly inconsistent to me. The main character, Tara's, feelings ping pong back and forth multiple times across the span of a single conversation. In one specific instance, she also brushes of the difficulty of her English thesis despite her writer’s block being one or her central conflicts, and her overall indecisiveness became very frustrating to me.
In short, the story wasn't as compelling as Waters' debut novel, Ghost Wood Song, and I just wish the characters had felt as vivid and solid as the world they inhabited.
Thank you, NetGalley and HarperTeen for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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