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I literally only finished this due to a reading challenge. The back 40% was better than the first 60%, but I cannot get over how bad it was.
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Colonisation
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
I read the German translation and I'm still not quite sure if the translation was shitty or the English original or just both.
I couldn't bond with the prota, Vhalla, because... I don't know, she wouldn't be someone I wanted to be friends with and seemed very indecisive and unaware of her surroundings,
I feel like many aspects that would have given the book depth were cast aside or placed in scenes where they didn't belong. I would have liked to see more of Vhalla's relationship with her friends and would have liked to learn more about the magic and see what it can do.
The plot wasn't always predictable but had a lot of smaller inconsistencies which added up. One moment he's angry and then he's not?
But I believe a better choice of words could have compensated at least some of these things. What did Stephen King say? The road to hell is paved with adverbs? There has never been a book in which I felt this more. I cringed really hard at some points in the book.
Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation
Graphic: Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Blood, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, War
Minor: Slavery, Death of parent, Colonisation
Graphic: Violence, Police brutality
Moderate: Death, Gore
Minor: Medical content