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A review by nooralshanti
The Crimson Queen by Alec Hutson
I'm throwing in the towel. It was a huge struggle for me to get through the first few chapters - I think I got through 4 of them - but I just can't find anything to interest me in this story. And it's such a shame, because Alec Hutson's story in the Lost Lore Anthology was excellent and gripping right from the start.
There are a few issues with this one, not least among them all the info-dump and the confused jumble of terms and names and geographic locations and titles. Packing in a thousand different details is not, in my opinion, how you do world-building.
I also just didn't see a reason to care about any of the characters. We start off with a kid being bullied who just watched everything without showing any inner thoughts or emotions about any of it. And then suddenly jump to a palace where an uninteresting discussion between a monarch and some messengers is taking place. There may or may not have been other characters I erased from my memory in between.
Anyway, it might be for someone else, but it's just not working for me right now.
There are a few issues with this one, not least among them all the info-dump and the confused jumble of terms and names and geographic locations and titles. Packing in a thousand different details is not, in my opinion, how you do world-building.
I also just didn't see a reason to care about any of the characters. We start off with a kid being bullied who just watched everything without showing any inner thoughts or emotions about any of it. And then suddenly jump to a palace where an uninteresting discussion between a monarch and some messengers is taking place. There may or may not have been other characters I erased from my memory in between.
Anyway, it might be for someone else, but it's just not working for me right now.