Becoming by Dakota BrownMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Untrained Mage Goes to College
Sofia is a young woman who is just starting her freshman year at college. She’s also a magic-user who is completely untrained and in the closet. On her first day on campus, she meets three good looking and nice young men who all seem interested in her, which flusters her. She also meets her new roommate, Veronica, who is a supernatural rights activist, which makes it slightly easier to reveal her magic to her, because it turns out the magical black market really wants to get its hands on her.
This is a pretty slow-paced book. It doesn’t really get exciting until the very latter stages. Everything leading up to the action at the end of the book relates to Sofia and her relationship choices.
The world-building is sketchy and we only find out limited facts relating to how magic users are perceived and treated. We are given some facts about a very small amount of supernatural creatures, but not many.
I did like the characters but there was very little depth to them, especially Sofia who seems to have emerged from a pre-college cocoon where she has no real-life before we meet her.
There wasn’t anything wrong with this book, but I just didn’t feel connected to it. I didn’t want to give up and return it after 20%, and I was happy to finish it, I just don’t feel compelled to read the next book in the series.
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