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lachrymodal's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Death, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts
steveatwaywords's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Working hard to love this series, but it may not be in me.
I am enthralled by Peake's loquacious style, his dramatistic moments of close-camera characterizations. While they are not as creative or startling as they were in the first volume, this work adds new characters who are equally enigmatic, frustrating in their function. What I have difficulty adjusting to is, still a sense of incoherence to the narrative itself. Yes, there is a plot of sorts, but the events that compose it are both disjointed or disunited and thereby difficult to trace significance. Random weather, accidents, and fortuitous turns of the head . . . these cause events which follow, but they do not hold much gravity. The gravity of the work comes from its atmosphere, the readerly experience, the wonder of Titus, Fuschia, or of Steepike.
I am enthralled by Peake's loquacious style, his dramatistic moments of close-camera characterizations. While they are not as creative or startling as they were in the first volume, this work adds new characters who are equally enigmatic, frustrating in their function. What I have difficulty adjusting to is, still a sense of incoherence to the narrative itself. Yes, there is a plot of sorts, but the events that compose it are both disjointed or disunited and thereby difficult to trace significance. Random weather, accidents, and fortuitous turns of the head . . . these cause events which follow, but they do not hold much gravity. The gravity of the work comes from its atmosphere, the readerly experience, the wonder of Titus, Fuschia, or of Steepike.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence
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