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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I tried. I did. I kept hoping it would click but I just have no desire to go back to it. I can’t even put my finger on why. It’s beautifully written and I love urban fantasy where you get gods and monsters and such in our world. But this just wasn’t it for me.
slow-paced
Great concept, interesting storyline and complex characters. It was really cool how we jumped perspectives in this book. Instead of focusing on a few main characters, a character would be introduced in one of the perspectives and the next chapter would be from the introduced character's perspective, so on and so forth. In saying so, as there were so many characters, it was difficult to remember who was who as the book jumped between 5-10 perspectives.
challenging
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
No Gods, No Monsters is an audacious, powerful, and often mind-blowing novel that takes you on a dizzying ride into a hidden, ancient world of monsters existing just beneath the surface of human society. Turnbull explores the unseen power structures and secret power struggles that underpin the reality humans thought they understood. In particular, the book is the story of what happens when those secrets are laid bare for all the world to see. Just like in The Lesson, Turnbull anchors the speculative fiction / horror part of his narrative in a nuanced understanding of the power dynamics at work in the real world, a world riven by racism, bigotry, media manipulation, repression and oppression, but also a world of communities, loyalties, and love.
Full review: https://maria-is-reading.blogspot.com/2021/06/book-review-no-gods-no-monsters-by.html
Full review: https://maria-is-reading.blogspot.com/2021/06/book-review-no-gods-no-monsters-by.html
