Name: Balcony of Fog
ISBN: 9781733525923

Rich Shapero

Decamp with an innocent toiler and his mysterious female companion to a metaphoric world in the clouds—a strange, vertiginous perch that reveals startling insights about the twisted dynamics of love and power.

Balcony of Fog

Emily Perkovich

I received this book from a Goodreads giveaway. I didn’t hate it, but I am glad I didn’t pay for it. There is little to no character development which makes it difficult to keep up with dialogue and character purpose. The first 50 pages of storyline are so rushed that I had no idea what/why things were going on, and then I was just suddenly expected to believe that two characters, whose only real distinguishing factor is their names, have now fallen in love and are running away together. A good portion of the middle of the book was descriptions of what sailing through the sky was like, but there was rarely dialogue or action to create progress. It felt less like world building and more like someone trying to tell me a story quickly before they run out of time and ending up repeating themself because they feel nervous and rushed. My biggest issue is that even with the descriptors I couldn’t picture much of anything. For large chunks of the book, I completely zoned out, and just had a vague idea of what had just happened. The idea behind the book seemed solid, but the execution was off and not polished.

Balcony of Fog

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