Where Dreams Descend (Kingdom of Cards #1) by Janella Angeles Publisher: Wednesday Books, August 25th 2020 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Format: eARC Page Count: 464 pages My Rating: ⭐⭐ (2/5) Glorian is a cursed city. When a magician competition was held there, Kallia, eager to leave Jack’s club and prove that women should have a place in performance magic, joined it despite Jack’s warning. Things went awry from there and no one knew why. The plot was passable. I appreciate Kallia as a strong woman, but other that that, it was a frustrating reading experience. Though Glorian was this mystical city whose history no one could remember, it did not feel intriguing when the mysteriousness was artificial. Every character was keeping a lot of important information from each other as well as the reader, and that took a toll on the overall level of enjoyment when everything was unnecessarily confusing. That being said, I would probably still read the sequel in hopes of clearing up all confusions. [19 Apr 2020] I received an e-ARC from Wednesday Books via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.