Reviews

Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

__melissa__'s review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Love it. Good humor, nice detective work and blooming romance story.

carodinges's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

holy f*ck
This was an amazing book!!! 
Well written, some twists and turns and great characters (and character development). I will recommend this book to anyone who is in for a mystery :)

aerorach's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-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

4.25

bayerischer_buecherdrache's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

alinskii's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

priss's review

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

4/5. Entertaining and quite twisty - I liked this magical murder mystery. How the magic in the story actually works is a little unclear but I quite liked some of the main characters (Grasshopper is the best!) and I thought the politics were strangely set up but made sense also as a parallel to our current world. I liked the writing style but sometimes I found the tone to be a bit too jokey (but that makes sense with our protagonist…) So all in all, quite a good book and would recommend!

alanamira's review against another edition

funny mysterious fast-paced

3.75

jordansvt's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

itslucyamber's review against another edition

4.5

It takes balls to 

kill off ⅔ of your characters.

  And it takes skill to do it well. This book has both.


And don't be fooled, this book is fantasy to its very core - all the world-building, lore, magic, powers, political drama, power plays and schemes - just wrapped up in a fantastic murder mystery.

carolynnagain's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The only good thing about this book was the mystery itself. It's diverse, but in a hamfisted, cover-of-a-textbook kind of way. It doesn't feel natural but more like the author wanted to check a certain number of boxes. This leads to somehow even more awkward characterization than just everyone having VERY specific appearance descriptions.
The prose is also very weak and not at all edited to suit the setting. There's many modernisms and idioms that immediately pulled me out of the world in an irritating way.
If the mystery itself wasn't interesting with a pretty good twist, I wouldn't know what anyone got out of this book.