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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Shit has HIT THE FAN
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
just completely speechless. this book gave me everything I wanted and then ripped my heart out.
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i just dont think this is for me. if i ever want to pick it up again, i still have the ebook!
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
What a useless book. It has no right to be this long when it's this boring. The amount of times I rolled my eyes cannot be counted.
The things I dislike: immature writing, writing that does too much in terms of formatting (writers I beg leave your writing alone and let the words do the work), too many characters to not care about, twists so predictable and obvious the characters look stupid, too many references to memes and popular culture that date the book.
This book has perspectives from Arlo, Nausicäa, Vehan, Aurelian, Celadon, and Riadne. And does such a poor job of using all of these perspectives. The climax of Vehan and Aurelian's relationship is initially not from either of their perspectives. What. Riadne's perspectives are so boring, so predictable, so cookie-cutter. Arlo looks like a Massive Idiot for being duped by her. That's not even a spoiler, it's just obvious if you have half a brain. If the author wanted Riadne's words not to sound sarcastic and manipulative all the time maybe they shouldn't have put in the italics that make things sound sarcastic. Not every other word has to be in italics jesus.
I think Lethe and Celadon are interesting, and that's about it. However Celadon's reputation in my mind took quite a hit when he was given so many obvious clues to his big reveal that he looks like an absolute moron for not getting it immediately. He's like hm this is an interesting and probably significant clue that seems to tie back to some other significant thing I discovered before I wonder what it could mean. YEAH. I WONDER.
Also, Celadon's queerness gets briefly mentioned in one paragraph. For how heavy-handed the rest of the book is about it it felt like it was shoved in just to say that he was queer. This is not an issue of tokenization, this is an issue of bad writing and poor character development.
The things I dislike: immature writing, writing that does too much in terms of formatting (writers I beg leave your writing alone and let the words do the work), too many characters to not care about, twists so predictable and obvious the characters look stupid, too many references to memes and popular culture that date the book.
This book has perspectives from Arlo, Nausicäa, Vehan, Aurelian, Celadon, and Riadne. And does such a poor job of using all of these perspectives. The climax of Vehan and Aurelian's relationship is initially not from either of their perspectives. What. Riadne's perspectives are so boring, so predictable, so cookie-cutter. Arlo looks like a Massive Idiot for being duped by her. That's not even a spoiler, it's just obvious if you have half a brain. If the author wanted Riadne's words not to sound sarcastic and manipulative all the time maybe they shouldn't have put in the italics that make things sound sarcastic. Not every other word has to be in italics jesus.
I think Lethe and Celadon are interesting, and that's about it. However Celadon's reputation in my mind took quite a hit when he was given so many obvious clues to his big reveal that he looks like an absolute moron for not getting it immediately. He's like hm this is an interesting and probably significant clue that seems to tie back to some other significant thing I discovered before I wonder what it could mean. YEAH. I WONDER.
Also, Celadon's queerness gets briefly mentioned in one paragraph. For how heavy-handed the rest of the book is about it it felt like it was shoved in just to say that he was queer. This is not an issue of tokenization, this is an issue of bad writing and poor character development.