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3.24 AVERAGE
3.24 AVERAGE
It’s incredibly rare I give up on a book and don’t finish it. I’m talking... maybe I’ve done it one other time. 5 chapters in and I couldn’t get past how pretentious and dull this was.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
slow-paced
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
tense
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:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
The beginning was glorious. Unfortunately after the big start the story ground and ground until I wondered if we were supposed to collect a sack of corn meal at the end.
Vastly disappointing.
Vastly disappointing.
Hogwash.
The writing is overblown and irritating. The narrative is so disjointed as to be almost unreadable. I kept hoping something was going to happen that would bring it together, and yet nothing ever did. By the time the killer is announced, the author felt the need to give an expository chapter of the hows and whys, when he had done that at least once before, when leading the reader to the wrong idea of who the killer is.
I forced myself to finish it only because I invested so much time in it, but I wouldn't recommend it.
The writing is overblown and irritating. The narrative is so disjointed as to be almost unreadable. I kept hoping something was going to happen that would bring it together, and yet nothing ever did. By the time the killer is announced, the author felt the need to give an expository chapter of the hows and whys, when he had done that at least once before, when leading the reader to the wrong idea of who the killer is.
I forced myself to finish it only because I invested so much time in it, but I wouldn't recommend it.
I made it to page 90, but when I found myself glancing at pages and skipping ahead, I realized, I am no really interested in reading this story any longer. I like the idea behind it, and as I mentioned in status updates, I like Officer Rey -- but he is the only character I am remotely interested in. I don't care about the core group, the Dante Club is a bunch of self-absorbed academics that are not well developed, and what development they do have makes you not like them. I understand and author creating characters to hate, but that is not what has happened here. The author has failed to create characters that produce much of any feeling at all. I don't hate them, I just don't care.
Like two chapters in kinda boring but in pausing this to read dune