A review by quillnqueer
The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

3.0

 This is yet anotehr book that I've read this year that has some really great concepts that are just not fully explored. This book suffers from a lack of world building in the fae world, and the majority of the story is set up, making the major scenes feel rushed and uncompleted.

The set up was fantastic, I saw nothing that made me think this was going to be less than a 5 star read. Two Queer girls, living together with their hoard of cats, spending the night on Parisian streets hunting for some of my favourite posters in history to steal and sell on to pay the rent was such a good story in itself.

The fae world plot line really bogged this story down, I didn't feel like it was as richly described as the girl's own world, and we didn't spend a lot of time there. The story started hurtling to the finish line as soon as they entered the world, and for me the ending for one character I really liked felt unresolved.