Reviews - The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

Holly Ringland

4.07 AVERAGE

nerdstrom's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad slow-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

georgialauren's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

faranyon's review against another edition

3.0

Eivør mainittu. ♥

twocollins's review against another edition

2.75

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The premise of this book is beautiful, but there was a real lack of connection between the protagonists actions and emotions.

I had difficulty connecting with the Esther and her family. So often in the book I kept asking myself, why??? As she continued to cut off her friends and family, drowning her sorrows in alcohol and the arms of strangers.

Despite personalities being driven by past trauma, I didn't find Esther or her mother particularly likeable, and I couldn't resonate with them. The settings are beautiful but I found this book a challenge to get through in parts.

The premise of mixing fairytale, mythology, landscape and culture into the story of death, loss, grief was interesting but for me it just didn't pull together as well as it could... At 549 pages it's long, and many parts I think we're not explained well enough to engage the reasoning and others were overly long and involved...

I wanted to live this .. but unfortunately...

casslel's review against another edition

5.0

Could not put it down. I don't normally read any book for a second time, but I will be keeping this one for a revisit.

eva_jane05's review against another edition

2.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The start of this book was slow and painful to read for me. The main character’s actions didn’t seem to make sense. It felt like rather than a fleshed out character with r complex emotions she was a random jumble of seperate responses to greif. Still by the end of the book I felt like she didn’t make sense. I also struggled with the writing style in the beginning. It felt full of itself. This did improve, and the book ended up being worth the read in the end but it was very slow and doesn’t give much in therms of plot. If you are reading for the mystery or the adventure, don’t read this book. I gave it 2.5 stars because some of the later characters did feel more real to me, and the events made more sense, making the last two hundred or so pages enjoyable, but I couldn’t bring myself to give it 3 when I felt like in the first 150 pages there was no sense of plot and I didn’t know anything about the characters or their motivations, just that they were confused and upset.