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2.0
Honestly, I’ve gone back and forth giving this 1 or 2 stars. I mean, the idea is pretty good. A young girl discovers a power she never knew she had, falls in love with a handsome, caring boy who needs her more than she’ll ever need him, gets carted off by good guys who are really bad guys to learn the trade of alchemy in a dangerous and exciting school for kids just like her.
Sounds great, right?
But OMYWORD reading it is like swimming through jello. The first chapter describes her home life as just about exactly the a same as young Harry Potter (it mixes in more painful stories about school pre-life change than his) and then JUMPS to meeting, hanging out with and falling in love with a new boy in chapter TWO! And there are other issues besides badly driven plot lines. The main character is INCREDIBLY repetitive with her thoughts, and so much of the intra and interpersonal dialogue is beyond shallow.
It was a SLOG. While I’m mildly curious to see what would have happened to the world as it built, I can’t imagine wading through another one of these.
Sounds great, right?
But OMYWORD reading it is like swimming through jello. The first chapter describes her home life as just about exactly the a same as young Harry Potter (it mixes in more painful stories about school pre-life change than his) and then JUMPS to meeting, hanging out with and falling in love with a new boy in chapter TWO! And there are other issues besides badly driven plot lines. The main character is INCREDIBLY repetitive with her thoughts, and so much of the intra and interpersonal dialogue is beyond shallow.
It was a SLOG. While I’m mildly curious to see what would have happened to the world as it built, I can’t imagine wading through another one of these.
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