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ellelainey's review
3.0
Book – Bloodstained Heart
Author – Kassandra Lea
Star rating - ★★★☆☆
Cover – Okay
POV – 3rd person, dual POV, with omni
Would I read it again – No
Genre – LGBT, Contemporary?, Paranormal, Ghost/Zombie
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I was confused by this one. I started off the book thinking that the main character, Seamus, was a ghost. There were a lot of hints and shoves in that direction, by constantly mentioning hauntings, ghostly or undead related words. However, it turned out that he's a zombie, which really confused me all over again.
There were quite a few editing issues. Some sentences began with small caps, there were words missing, and small instances like using 'either' only to follow it up with 'and' instead of 'or' so that the sentence didn't make sense anymore.
The POV was confusing, too. At one point, I thought we'd switched scenes only to keep Tibbit's POV, then found that I'd either become so confused that I'd been reading it in the wrong POV or it had suddenly become omni-present by mixing both Seamus and Tibbet's POV in the same scene. It was hard to tell, even after I realised that it didn't make sense and had gone back to re-read the page.
There are a few flashbacks, to show what happened to Seamus and to show the moment he first met Tibbet. While both were interesting in terms of explaining things, they were often far too long, showing the flashback in two or three parts, where only one was needed. I also found that Seamus' story didn't make much sense. Why didn't Bridgette protest to what had been done to Seamus and have it reversed? Why didn't anyone believe that 'my darling' was a sign that Seamus and Bridgette were seeing each other? And what was the timeline? I found all of this so confusing, because it didn't make sense. The timeline felt like Tibbet's time was contemporary, while Seamus' original life was around the 1800's or early 1900's. Except, they didn't use words like “weirdo pervert” and didn't talk about “making passes at” anyone. These words aren't suited to the timeline that it's suggested Seamus belongs to, though we're never really told when that is.
Overall, it was just far too confusing to appreciation the good idea of the plot or the fact that the characters could have been great, if explored in a little more detail.
Author – Kassandra Lea
Star rating - ★★★☆☆
Cover – Okay
POV – 3rd person, dual POV, with omni
Would I read it again – No
Genre – LGBT, Contemporary?, Paranormal, Ghost/Zombie
** COPY RECEIVED THROUGH NETGALLEY **
I was confused by this one. I started off the book thinking that the main character, Seamus, was a ghost. There were a lot of hints and shoves in that direction, by constantly mentioning hauntings, ghostly or undead related words. However, it turned out that he's a zombie, which really confused me all over again.
There were quite a few editing issues. Some sentences began with small caps, there were words missing, and small instances like using 'either' only to follow it up with 'and' instead of 'or' so that the sentence didn't make sense anymore.
The POV was confusing, too. At one point, I thought we'd switched scenes only to keep Tibbit's POV, then found that I'd either become so confused that I'd been reading it in the wrong POV or it had suddenly become omni-present by mixing both Seamus and Tibbet's POV in the same scene. It was hard to tell, even after I realised that it didn't make sense and had gone back to re-read the page.
There are a few flashbacks, to show what happened to Seamus and to show the moment he first met Tibbet. While both were interesting in terms of explaining things, they were often far too long, showing the flashback in two or three parts, where only one was needed. I also found that Seamus' story didn't make much sense. Why didn't Bridgette protest to what had been done to Seamus and have it reversed? Why didn't anyone believe that 'my darling' was a sign that Seamus and Bridgette were seeing each other? And what was the timeline? I found all of this so confusing, because it didn't make sense. The timeline felt like Tibbet's time was contemporary, while Seamus' original life was around the 1800's or early 1900's. Except, they didn't use words like “weirdo pervert” and didn't talk about “making passes at” anyone. These words aren't suited to the timeline that it's suggested Seamus belongs to, though we're never really told when that is.
Overall, it was just far too confusing to appreciation the good idea of the plot or the fact that the characters could have been great, if explored in a little more detail.
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