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3.29 AVERAGE
3.29 AVERAGE
I think it was a lovely concept but poor execution. There is so much jam packed into such a small book it feels almost rushed and I was left confused for most of it. She builds a whole new world but the explanations for what happened and what things are, they are less than satisfactory. The big "fight sceen" or conflict is over in half a second and never once do you doubt that the good guys will win. There is nothing to compelling you to read it.
Nameless by: Lili St. Crow is a retelling of the classic tale of Snow White. Cami was found shivering in the snow with cuts all over her as a young child. Now ten years later her past has come back to haunt her. Cami starts to wander who she really is and, where she came from. Unfortunately the truth is more terrifying than Cami ever imagined.
Well, that was most definitely a new take on the Snow White story...
It was a bit awkward until you get used to it. The world building was a bit rough. St. Crow more or less left the reader to their own devices to figure the world out and what she meant by things.
This was fairly original though. It was paranormal mixed with a fairy tale, mixed with a world that could parallel our own (there were references to things that happened in our own history, but with a paranormal twist to them).
Not her finest work, but I still liked it. Not really sure where the next book will go, if she will stick with Cami, or if we will follow someone else. I am curious.
It was a bit awkward until you get used to it. The world building was a bit rough. St. Crow more or less left the reader to their own devices to figure the world out and what she meant by things.
This was fairly original though. It was paranormal mixed with a fairy tale, mixed with a world that could parallel our own (there were references to things that happened in our own history, but with a paranormal twist to them).
Not her finest work, but I still liked it. Not really sure where the next book will go, if she will stick with Cami, or if we will follow someone else. I am curious.
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I am not sure what to say about this one. I found it mesmerising and vividly real. The fantasy elements were described so eloquently.
The writing is melancholic and tinged with sadness. The characters hunger and need and hurt. Our hero Cami is sharp, lost and her future uncertain. And I still don't know what half of the creatures in the story actually are.
But it doesn't matter. The fairy tale is there, wrapped around a mystical world quite unlike anything I have ever encountered.
And there's still Ellen and Ruby's stories to tell. I expect I will see more beauty and madness to follow.
This copy was provided by the publisher via Netgalley and received with thanks.
The writing is melancholic and tinged with sadness. The characters hunger and need and hurt. Our hero Cami is sharp, lost and her future uncertain. And I still don't know what half of the creatures in the story actually are.
But it doesn't matter. The fairy tale is there, wrapped around a mystical world quite unlike anything I have ever encountered.
And there's still Ellen and Ruby's stories to tell. I expect I will see more beauty and madness to follow.
This copy was provided by the publisher via Netgalley and received with thanks.
Had good qualities and bad, so I'm not sure how to rate this book in the end. If it sounds like your kind of book, give it a try, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone who doesn't read a lot of paranormal YA.
It had complex and sometimes confusing world-building, but the world was interesting and I'd like to read another story set there.
Our Snow White was often the damsel in distress, being protected by her friends and steadied by strong hands when she felt woozy (which I guess was true to the fairy tale). But she also had some anti-Bella thoughts that gave her some emotional maturity I appreciated.
Only a few of the Snow White themes made it into the retelling, but it definitely had the gothic feel and the imagery.
I'd read the sequels when they come out (surely her friend Ruby with the red hair and the grandmother and her friend Ellie with the evil step-mother will have their own stories soon enough)
It had complex and sometimes confusing world-building, but the world was interesting and I'd like to read another story set there.
Our Snow White was often the damsel in distress, being protected by her friends and steadied by strong hands when she felt woozy (which I guess was true to the fairy tale). But she also had some anti-Bella thoughts that gave her some emotional maturity I appreciated.
Only a few of the Snow White themes made it into the retelling, but it definitely had the gothic feel and the imagery.
I'd read the sequels when they come out (surely her friend Ruby with the red hair and the grandmother and her friend Ellie with the evil step-mother will have their own stories soon enough)
A very interesting (and gross) version of Snow White.
Cami has come to the Family by pure chance. She ran away from something bad and has scars to prove it. She knows nothing about her family or where she came from. That is all going to change.
My biggest problem was that the society wasn't explained as much as I wanted it to be. You can figure out pretty much everything about the Family and the Charmed etc... However, I wish that St. Crow had explained it a little bit clearer because I have the idea of what the society is but there are still some things that I would like cleared up.
Nico and Cami have an interesting relationship. Cami wants Nico to stop being angry and to stop doing all the things that make Papa mad at him. Nico wants to protect Cami from everything. Cami thinks Nico will get so angry that he will hurt her. Yet, the two of them have a bond that started since Nico told Cami that he would hate her forever.
You could tell that this novel was a another version of Snow White pretty much right away. However, the novel reminded me a little bit of "Snow White and the Huntsman" too.
Interesting novel from St. Crow. I wasn't the biggest fan of her "Strange Angels" series so I was a little worried that I wouldn't like this book. However, it was really good and I enjoyed it.
Cami has come to the Family by pure chance. She ran away from something bad and has scars to prove it. She knows nothing about her family or where she came from. That is all going to change.
My biggest problem was that the society wasn't explained as much as I wanted it to be. You can figure out pretty much everything about the Family and the Charmed etc... However, I wish that St. Crow had explained it a little bit clearer because I have the idea of what the society is but there are still some things that I would like cleared up.
Nico and Cami have an interesting relationship. Cami wants Nico to stop being angry and to stop doing all the things that make Papa mad at him. Nico wants to protect Cami from everything. Cami thinks Nico will get so angry that he will hurt her. Yet, the two of them have a bond that started since Nico told Cami that he would hate her forever.
You could tell that this novel was a another version of Snow White pretty much right away. However, the novel reminded me a little bit of "Snow White and the Huntsman" too.
Interesting novel from St. Crow. I wasn't the biggest fan of her "Strange Angels" series so I was a little worried that I wouldn't like this book. However, it was really good and I enjoyed it.
3.5, rounded up because the ending NAILED it.
Also, no love triangle.
Also, no love triangle.
I am always up for a fairy-tale retelling and I thought that the premise of this story sounded interesting and like a new take. And, well, it technically was. The main issue, as other reviewers are saying, is that the book is trying to juggle too many things at once and it drops the ball on a lot of things. A lot of the terminology is unexplained and left for the reader to interpret and the history of this world is unclear. At first it seems as if 'magic' type people were revealed after WWI and history appropriately changed after that, but it doesn't explain the change in holiday traditions prior to that. There's a lot that goes unexplained and I was hoping that Cami would be a non-magic person in a smaller sect of magic instead of a semi-magic person in a magic world with humans kind of in it. The characters weren't developed near enough, the world wasn't built to a good standard, and the connections to the original fairy tale (while good) didn't fit into the rest of the story well enough. Everything, like a broken mirror, was too jagged. I enjoyed it, but probably won't be adding it to my collection.