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A review by hounded
Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede
slow-paced
- Strong character development? No
0.25
Wow. I wonder why this book has so many high reviews? Reading this was torture!
The main character is the epitome of the "I'm not like other girls" type and it is unbearable to listen to. The type that loves Halloween and reads at a bar and is so cynical but under all that she cares! Literally referring to herself as a "wolf" and her rage is dangerous and so animalistic! This character just screams I want to live in a hot topic!
Bleh!
People calling this a feminist book need to read a lot more before doing that. They must have skipped over all the parts where she literally says how she feels happier with a "Powerful and strong man" when the whole point of her character is she's supposed to be a bad ass independent woman? This was a half attempt at some sort of feminist view. I can't discredit the viewpoint of "Men can do what they want but women can't let's change it" but the way it is handled is so poor and felt like it meant nothing in the end.
I really should have put this book down when the character says she relates to Elsa From FROZEN? Saying that because she embraced her power she was dangerous a princess and a villian at the same time. woof.
This attempt at body horror is nothing. It felt like a desperate attempt to make this boring story more interesting and the main character having her moment but it was nothing. A bunch of just thrown in gore because it was a cry for help that this book had no story. The graphic killings are dull and predictable not to mention strangely always cut off or strangely censored? None of them shocked me and felt that they were taken from a poorly made horror movie.
Truely I am shocked that this is so highly rated? There's fun slasher books out there that are much better then this.
The main character is the epitome of the "I'm not like other girls" type and it is unbearable to listen to. The type that loves Halloween and reads at a bar and is so cynical but under all that she cares! Literally referring to herself as a "wolf" and her rage is dangerous and so animalistic! This character just screams I want to live in a hot topic!
Bleh!
People calling this a feminist book need to read a lot more before doing that. They must have skipped over all the parts where she literally says how she feels happier with a "Powerful and strong man" when the whole point of her character is she's supposed to be a bad ass independent woman? This was a half attempt at some sort of feminist view. I can't discredit the viewpoint of "Men can do what they want but women can't let's change it" but the way it is handled is so poor and felt like it meant nothing in the end.
I really should have put this book down when the character says she relates to Elsa From FROZEN? Saying that because she embraced her power she was dangerous a princess and a villian at the same time. woof.
This attempt at body horror is nothing. It felt like a desperate attempt to make this boring story more interesting and the main character having her moment but it was nothing. A bunch of just thrown in gore because it was a cry for help that this book had no story. The graphic killings are dull and predictable not to mention strangely always cut off or strangely censored? None of them shocked me and felt that they were taken from a poorly made horror movie.
Truely I am shocked that this is so highly rated? There's fun slasher books out there that are much better then this.