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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
Do I recommend: đđ»
Summary: this one made me sad because it had potential
Wow, okay, holy crap, umâgrammar? Punctuation?? I swear at one point I read a run-on sentence the length of an entire paragraph with nary a comma in sight when that entire sentence shouldâve had at least 5 of them. The sentence was also so grammatically incorrect, I had to read it thrice to make any sense of it. đ
The writing, it honestly reads like an unedited first draft. I feel really bad saying that, but itâs true. At one point the author literally forgot that she was writing from 3rd person perspective and ended up using âmeâ instead of âhimâ. I kept reading, though, because the concept was genuinely that interesting to me and I wanted it to be good. But frankly Iâm not even sure I understand the story? The writing is so unnecessarily convolutedâand incorrectâand it makes it genuinely difficult to keep up. Like the author tried to force poetic and lyrical prose, but all it did was make it so confusing that the meaning got completely lost?
An example, about 20 pages in (skip the next 2 paragraphs if you want absolutely no spoilers, even minor ones):
âShe couldnât have left her brother behind, alone, afraid, in pain. So she had tried to take him with her, only to fail, for there was no fairness in death either, and her love turned into a curse. A curse she had lived through the past five hundred years for she had taken what was not hers to takeâtwo lives.â
Silene didnât want to leave her brother behind when she died, so she tried to take him with her, but she failed to do so. It literally says âonly to fail.â So she didnât succeed in taking her brotherâs life. And somehow, that attempt âturned into a curseâ. And it specifically says âfor she had taken what was not hers to takeâtwo lives.â What??? I thought she didnât succeed in taking her brother with her when she died? She failed to do so. So which one is it? Also, what do you mean with that last sentence? It implies that no one before or after Silene has ever tried to unalive another person, which is ridiculous. So unalivers, attempted or otherwise, turn into reapers when they pass? But that canât be true, because the text implies that this has never happened before. The only way I can make sense of that paragraph is if Silene did succeed in unaliving her brother, but then failed to take his soul with her to the realm of the dead, which then cursed her somehow and turned her into a reaper. But even that explanation doesnât make sense. I finished the book and yet I still donât know what that meant.
Honestly, I tried really, really hard, but I just canât say this is worth anyoneâs time or money. Itâs impossible to read with how horribly itâs written. Such an intriguing concept, and I was genuinely excited to read all of the novellas in this series, but this is just unreadable. I just wish anyone other than the author herself actually proof-read this. It couldâve been really good. đ
Summary: this one made me sad because it had potential
Wow, okay, holy crap, umâgrammar? Punctuation?? I swear at one point I read a run-on sentence the length of an entire paragraph with nary a comma in sight when that entire sentence shouldâve had at least 5 of them. The sentence was also so grammatically incorrect, I had to read it thrice to make any sense of it. đ
The writing, it honestly reads like an unedited first draft. I feel really bad saying that, but itâs true. At one point the author literally forgot that she was writing from 3rd person perspective and ended up using âmeâ instead of âhimâ. I kept reading, though, because the concept was genuinely that interesting to me and I wanted it to be good. But frankly Iâm not even sure I understand the story? The writing is so unnecessarily convolutedâand incorrectâand it makes it genuinely difficult to keep up. Like the author tried to force poetic and lyrical prose, but all it did was make it so confusing that the meaning got completely lost?
An example, about 20 pages in (skip the next 2 paragraphs if you want absolutely no spoilers, even minor ones):
âShe couldnât have left her brother behind, alone, afraid, in pain. So she had tried to take him with her, only to fail, for there was no fairness in death either, and her love turned into a curse. A curse she had lived through the past five hundred years for she had taken what was not hers to takeâtwo lives.â
Silene didnât want to leave her brother behind when she died, so she tried to take him with her, but she failed to do so. It literally says âonly to fail.â So she didnât succeed in taking her brotherâs life. And somehow, that attempt âturned into a curseâ. And it specifically says âfor she had taken what was not hers to takeâtwo lives.â What??? I thought she didnât succeed in taking her brother with her when she died? She failed to do so. So which one is it? Also, what do you mean with that last sentence? It implies that no one before or after Silene has ever tried to unalive another person, which is ridiculous. So unalivers, attempted or otherwise, turn into reapers when they pass? But that canât be true, because the text implies that this has never happened before. The only way I can make sense of that paragraph is if Silene did succeed in unaliving her brother, but then failed to take his soul with her to the realm of the dead, which then cursed her somehow and turned her into a reaper. But even that explanation doesnât make sense. I finished the book and yet I still donât know what that meant.
Honestly, I tried really, really hard, but I just canât say this is worth anyoneâs time or money. Itâs impossible to read with how horribly itâs written. Such an intriguing concept, and I was genuinely excited to read all of the novellas in this series, but this is just unreadable. I just wish anyone other than the author herself actually proof-read this. It couldâve been really good. đ
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Not a Romance, but a love story.
Content Warnings
Minor: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This utterly broke me
Merged review:
This utterly broke me
Merged review:
This utterly broke me
challenging
dark
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Much more character based than the other books, still was very beautifully written however it definitely didnât grab me as much as the other ones.