Hidden Depths by Ifan Morgan Jones (#27 Review)

Hidden Depths by Ifan Morgan Jones

Blurb

Rees has been running away his whole life. But when a legend from his childhood turns out to be fact rather than fiction, he is drawn deeper into a hidden world that reveals a troubling truth – not just about his present, but also his past. The choice is keep running, or stay and fight.

Review

I do love a quick read and I was really excited to read this one as it is my kind of book. Ifan Morgan Jones is also a new author for me and I do love discovering new authors through the Quick Reads scheme.

This book had all my favourite things: sci-fi, legends turning out to be real and even some dragons made an appearance. However, no matter how hard I tried I just could not gel with this book! I know I struggle with short books because I find myself wanting more from the story but if this book had been any longer I would have had to DNF it.

I did not get on well with Jones’ writing style and I fear that this will be one of the books that I soon forget about because it just lacked that something for me. Jones tried to put a very human story into a sci-fi setting and for me it just didn’t work. I give this book 2 out of 5 Dragons.

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About the author

Ifan Morgan Jones is lecturer in Journalism at Bangor University. He is the author of Babel – the first steampunk novel in Welsh, which won the 2020 Wales Book of the Year award (in the Welsh language), the Fiction category prize, and the Golwg360 Barn y Bobl (People’s Choice award).