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booktribe's review
Thank you to the author for this arc. All opinions are my own.
Sadly, I DNFed this book at 59%
I wanna start my review with the things I liked about the book. Firstly, the character development. I can tell that the author really cared about her characters and developed them well. They all have distinct personalities and I can tell that there will be lots of characters growth and changes in the series! I particularly liked Elijah and Emriah. Another thing I enjoyed was the ASL representation. The world needs more ASL representation in the media and I enjoyed picturing the characters signing while imagining the scenes. I’d like to see more of that in books.
But there are a few major things I didn’t like about this book. Firstly, there was a huge lack of world building. This book takes place on another planet, but that’s barely mentioned. And we have no idea what this planet is like. How is it similar to Earth? How is it different besides the fact that humans can’t talk on this planet? And speaking of that, we didn’t learn the reason why humans couldn’t talk on this planet until 35% into the book. We’re thrown into the story with no setting of the scene. The second thing I didn’t like about this book, and the main reason why I couldn’t finish it, is the many inconsistencies within the plot. I have so many questions about this book that I know will not be answered. There have been multiple scenes where something happens that makes absolutely no sense to me. I can’t tell if it’s the characters purposefully being stupid, or if it’s just lazy writing to hurry up and get us to the next scene with no regard for the reader’s or the characters’ common sense. The characters make a lot of stupid decisions. It was also a little too slow for my liking. I think it could be shorter. But I could’ve easily gotten past that if not for the other problems I mentioned. Those things made the book very frustrating for me to read.
I do feel like one day in the future I will try another one of this author’s books because I see a lot of potential for great storytelling. I’m hoping I’ll enjoy something more in the future!🤞🏽
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death
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