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A review by nooralshanti
Cursed Legacy (Aeterna Chronicles #1) by Anna K. Lane
3.0
Cursed Legacy started off awesome. A young baker's apprentice Kallum Farron signs up for test that, if he passes it, would allow him to get a good job at the control center. The test is a simulation that is supposed to test his response, if his heart rate goes up too much or he panics then he's not cut out for the job. He's not sure what they'll show him during the simulation and is afraid that he'll have to face a Reaver, one of the monstrous humanoid creatures that live outside the protective dome. This is great world-building.
The problems start when the story goes on because from that point on every time something interesting happens (and there's a lot of interesting in this story) the action is either bogged down by completely unnecessary details or by a very confusing hallucination that Kallum is having. This might have been ok once or twice, but it happens literally every time we have an action scene. The result is that many awesome things were happening and being revealed, but they were difficult to follow.
Suddenly Kallum was in the middle of plots and plans by people that he knew but we never got a chance to get to know. Plans were being made, but they didn't really progress for pages on end. Really interesting things were revealed about Kallum's past but I didn't get a chance to fully appreciate them because I was trying to piece together the random details.
At the end of the day, though, the story remains really good. There's a well-thought out good backbone to this tale that I am interested in seeing through. It mixes science fiction with fantasy and magic in a good way.
I will be reading the next book and hoping that it's been edited for coherence and clarity a bit more so I can enjoy the rest of this awesome story. If you like sci-fi and fantasy check it out because there's a lot to like about it.
The problems start when the story goes on because from that point on every time something interesting happens (and there's a lot of interesting in this story) the action is either bogged down by completely unnecessary details or by a very confusing hallucination that Kallum is having. This might have been ok once or twice, but it happens literally every time we have an action scene. The result is that many awesome things were happening and being revealed, but they were difficult to follow.
Suddenly Kallum was in the middle of plots and plans by people that he knew but we never got a chance to get to know. Plans were being made, but they didn't really progress for pages on end. Really interesting things were revealed about Kallum's past but I didn't get a chance to fully appreciate them because I was trying to piece together the random details.
At the end of the day, though, the story remains really good. There's a well-thought out good backbone to this tale that I am interested in seeing through. It mixes science fiction with fantasy and magic in a good way.
I will be reading the next book and hoping that it's been edited for coherence and clarity a bit more so I can enjoy the rest of this awesome story. If you like sci-fi and fantasy check it out because there's a lot to like about it.