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Les douze d'Aritsar T1: La vengeance de la dame

Jordan Ifueko

4.39 AVERAGE

mossjellies's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

galmoni's review against another edition

5.0

THIS WAS SOO GOOD!!! THE WORLDBUILDING? *MWAH!* FOILS TO LOVERS!?!?! HELLOO!!! THATS WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR

poetic_liz's review against another edition

2.5

This book is built upon a great idea, has an extremely interesting plot and is written by an author who knows how to make sentences sound pretty.

Unfortunately, that is not enough to make a good book. The plotting and style of world-building is frankly horrendous in parts - which I think is extremely sad because the book and the world-building would have had so much potential. Unfortunately the author relies on skipping every scene and time that is not directly plot-relevant and ends up telling instead of showing. There are barely any descriptions, everything is told via dialogue (I guess at least this makes the book extremely fast-paced and easy to read? Although I found it "stressful" to literally be forced to jump from major plot point to major plot point without down-time, or seeing the characters react appropriately most times). In addition, that makes the dialogue extremely clunky and unrealistic since the poor side characters are forced to fall in roles of just explaining everything to the main character or sharing memories - but also in the shared memories the author misses the opportunity to create a world described by pictures, smells, feelings. Everything is over-explained. Therefore, this leads to the reader not being able to wonder what may happen, what something may mean, or even just form their own opinions on characters or situations. Even as a YA book, I think this book treated both the main character and the reader as if they were frankly a bit stupid and can't pick up on context clues or "background world building". The over-explaining and definitely telling, not showing, ruined a perfectly interesting set-up, plot, and world idea for me. Which.. Sad.

Throughout the book, I simply never cared for the world or the characters since I, the reader, did not have a chance to develop my own relationship to these things. This, too, is just disappointing because I think a lot of the characters had a lot of potential, but I was never able to think about them really, as the book didn't provide the necessary moments to just get close to the characters without heavy plot happening. As this is an YA I am trying not to be too judgemental about that point but another aspect that annoyed me is how "perfect" everything was meant to fit together and to react, especially the main character.

Here, too, we are missing the intrinsic motivation. Why does she care so much about justice that it is her "destiny" to work for justice? Not that it is a bad thing but it just. Is.

I am probably especially harsh because I think this book had potential to be great - just not the way it is right now. Just a book that makes me wish the author would have gone back to the first draft with some help to make this book as great as it could have been.

thenextxchapter's review against another edition

2.0

I gave this book three stars because I simply didn’t enjoy it but I also felt that a young teenager out there might like it so I wasn’t going to crucify the book with just one star. I just felt like I was reading a book for a 13 year old which I think that that’s what the author intended. This book just didn’t do it for me. I only finished it because I don’t like leaving any book that I start reading unfinished. I definitely think that young teenagers might like this book though.