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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There once was a girl who was special but didn't know it. She flees with a man and picks up a dog (who really gets abandoned too often, please think more about the dog). This feels like a first episode of a series. You don't really know what's going on and there's all these new people and you're not completely blown off your socks but you're still curious about what's next.
I've stumbled on these books because I found Liz Shipton on facebook while scrolling through reels. The writer seems amazing so I HAD to try this.
Here's hoping there's more Malarkey in the next book
I've stumbled on these books because I found Liz Shipton on facebook while scrolling through reels. The writer seems amazing so I HAD to try this.
Here's hoping there's more Malarkey in the next book
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a tricky book to review... I really wanted to like it but I felt like it took a while to get into it. But for a dystopian pirate romance it's pretty fun.
Strong start to a series
Bird Howsley is a troublemaker and she’d be in worse places if it weren’t for her friend and sailing instructor Sargo Paz. When she finally goes too far, Sargo steps in to save her again only for them both to find themselves in danger. Set in a dystopian future, flooded and stricken with pandemics, this story is captivating as you find more and more questions for the next books to unravel.
Tropes: Fake Relationship; Friends to Lovers (possibly! Cliffhanger!)
Bird Howsley is a troublemaker and she’d be in worse places if it weren’t for her friend and sailing instructor Sargo Paz. When she finally goes too far, Sargo steps in to save her again only for them both to find themselves in danger. Set in a dystopian future, flooded and stricken with pandemics, this story is captivating as you find more and more questions for the next books to unravel.
Tropes: Fake Relationship; Friends to Lovers (possibly! Cliffhanger!)
adventurous
emotional
funny
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
This was surprisingly much better than I was expecting. It was a bit hard to get into at first (only because I have a hard time with dystopian novels) but once I was in, I was IN. I just wish it didn’t feel so rushed at the end of it. I am very excited to read the next one.
Free copy from the author, without expectation of review.
I'll start off by saying I'm a couple of decades too old for new adult, so I'm not the target market. The things that didn't hit the mark for me personally are therefore no fault of the author's; when we began with school and school-enemy rivalries I wondered if I would be able to get into it, but that stuff evaporated to leave only the Salt and it didn't matter how old I was, only that we were adventuring.
I enjoyed the question of how unreliable the narrator was and liked the dynamic with Sargo, despite his not smelling of cinnamon, unlike a certain drink.
There are very few books I've read knowing the author (even parasocially) before the work, and I think it's a very interesting experience. I enjoyed thinking of Liz smiling over certain things, or hearing them in her voice. I loved having a typo-named character, as someone who changed one of my own character's names because I typoed it more often than I got it right.
Overall, I liked it, and the ideas are sticking with me, and I want to go back for more, so I certainly intend to carry on with the series.
I'll start off by saying I'm a couple of decades too old for new adult, so I'm not the target market. The things that didn't hit the mark for me personally are therefore no fault of the author's; when we began with school and school-enemy rivalries I wondered if I would be able to get into it, but that stuff evaporated to leave only the Salt and it didn't matter how old I was, only that we were adventuring.
I enjoyed the question of how unreliable the narrator was and liked the dynamic with Sargo, despite his not smelling of cinnamon, unlike a certain drink.
There are very few books I've read knowing the author (even parasocially) before the work, and I think it's a very interesting experience. I enjoyed thinking of Liz smiling over certain things, or hearing them in her voice. I loved having a typo-named character, as someone who changed one of my own character's names because I typoed it more often than I got it right.
Overall, I liked it, and the ideas are sticking with me, and I want to go back for more, so I certainly intend to carry on with the series.