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A review by nunu_noodles
Bombmaker by Claire McFall
4.0
So....Well
I did really enjoy this book.
Lizzie is a celt; branded and outcast, living on borrowed time in England & trying to survive being a tool for a heavy hitting 'freedom fighter'/gang boss Alexander.
Good, great, wonderful. It was an interesting premise, and I felt like the author made some effort to fill out some background characters that would normally get missed out in a debut authors book. Well done Clare.
I just really hated that she was so creepily attached to her new love interest. And that he treated her like an abused little puppy that he'd found on the side of the road. And it was probably the whole point, to show that she was abused and didn't know any other way to be, I get that, but it just tickled me in an uncomfortable way.
He blatantly only wanted her because she had always belonged to his brother. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into that, I don't know. Uncomfortableness. Shh, it's a word.
I can't figure out how to convey it with some finesse so we'll just say that I liked the book until the end, where Samuel and Lizzies relationship struck an off chord with me.
I did really enjoy this book.
Lizzie is a celt; branded and outcast, living on borrowed time in England & trying to survive being a tool for a heavy hitting 'freedom fighter'/gang boss Alexander.
Good, great, wonderful. It was an interesting premise, and I felt like the author made some effort to fill out some background characters that would normally get missed out in a debut authors book. Well done Clare.
I just really hated that she was so creepily attached to her new love interest. And that he treated her like an abused little puppy that he'd found on the side of the road. And it was probably the whole point, to show that she was abused and didn't know any other way to be, I get that, but it just tickled me in an uncomfortable way.
He blatantly only wanted her because she had always belonged to his brother. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into that, I don't know. Uncomfortableness. Shh, it's a word.
I can't figure out how to convey it with some finesse so we'll just say that I liked the book until the end, where Samuel and Lizzies relationship struck an off chord with me.