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A review by angelinafxrs
The Death God's Sacrifice by Jenny Nordbak
3.0
Ok so this COULD HAVE BEEN 5.
For real.
The characters and world building, the dark gothic(?) themes and the Samhain, druids etc is sooooo dark and cool. I loved it.
I loved the fmc as well, the love interest too and the story.
BUT ☝️
Whoooooooooooooooooo green lighted this as a godsdamned NOVELLA?
This should have been a full length novel. Period. Point blank.
The world building was so interesting and the story as well, but it was literally TOO short. And not in a “omg I need more”, although some of that. But no.
Literally, structurally, too short.
It became compressed, forced and jumbled. No breather anywhere.
The plot, the characters, and the scenes felt rushed, crammed, jammed, packed like little fish in tins.
Also made their love so insta it made me roll my eyes more times than I can count.
Secondly.
What kind of editor or agent (dunno if this is self) was okay with WRITING OUT THE SCOTTISH ACCENT?
That was an actual crime.
Any beta reader, editor or agent should have leashed the author and told her to change this or it won’t be published. And if none of them told her- they hate you. They did it to see you fail, Jenny.
It was so hard to read, it was barely legible at some points and it forced me to re-read so many of his dialogues.
It should’ve been mentioned as a description and then the rest of the dialogue written clearly. Because that was absolute torture for no reason.
DESPITE those two major- nay- COLOSSAL mistakes in the process, it was still soooooo good.
If this had just been a full length novel and the Scottish accent taken out, I truly believe it would have been a 5.
Dare I say it would have been a bestseller and TikTok trendy?
Why why why why wasn’t this a full length novel?
I can only think that the publisher was trying to spare us from having to endure the torture of the written Scottish accent for an extended period of time.
So… thanks?
For real.
The characters and world building, the dark gothic(?) themes and the Samhain, druids etc is sooooo dark and cool. I loved it.
I loved the fmc as well, the love interest too and the story.
BUT ☝️
Whoooooooooooooooooo green lighted this as a godsdamned NOVELLA?
This should have been a full length novel. Period. Point blank.
The world building was so interesting and the story as well, but it was literally TOO short. And not in a “omg I need more”, although some of that. But no.
Literally, structurally, too short.
It became compressed, forced and jumbled. No breather anywhere.
The plot, the characters, and the scenes felt rushed, crammed, jammed, packed like little fish in tins.
Also made their love so insta it made me roll my eyes more times than I can count.
Secondly.
What kind of editor or agent (dunno if this is self) was okay with WRITING OUT THE SCOTTISH ACCENT?
That was an actual crime.
Any beta reader, editor or agent should have leashed the author and told her to change this or it won’t be published. And if none of them told her- they hate you. They did it to see you fail, Jenny.
It was so hard to read, it was barely legible at some points and it forced me to re-read so many of his dialogues.
It should’ve been mentioned as a description and then the rest of the dialogue written clearly. Because that was absolute torture for no reason.
DESPITE those two major- nay- COLOSSAL mistakes in the process, it was still soooooo good.
If this had just been a full length novel and the Scottish accent taken out, I truly believe it would have been a 5.
Dare I say it would have been a bestseller and TikTok trendy?
Why why why why wasn’t this a full length novel?
I can only think that the publisher was trying to spare us from having to endure the torture of the written Scottish accent for an extended period of time.
So… thanks?