Review of Fog and Fireflies by T.H. Lehnen

CW’s: Violence, violence against children, blood and gore, child death and child endangerment.

Eh.

Honestly, I think the audience for this book just wasn’t me. I didn’t really connect with any of the characters and they all felt so young, I just think maybe this is one of those YA books that doesn’t have the crossover appeal that I need.

Ogma wasn’t a bad MC, not at all, she just was a bit boring for my tastes. The other kids were cute, and they kind of behaved like kids, but more so like kids in a kids’ movie, or a Disney film, there just wasn’t believability. And it wasn’t that this was a fantasy book, plenty of fantasy books have believable characterization, it just was this one that didn’t seem to fully connect for me.

I also didn’t completely understand why they have children as part of a guard, where are the adults? Why would people, in any universe, have kids on the guard like this? It sounds like there are adults, so why militarize children?

I do think having a deadly fog/bad fog is a unique concept, I just don’t know if I think it was really delivered on.

I just didn’t really feel that much about this book. I had to eventually start skimming just to finish it.

Just wasn’t for me.