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A review by bottomofthebookshelf
The Legendary Shiver by J.H. MacAl
1.0
*Thanks to the author for giving me a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*
This book follows the story of a rising star named Ruby from the perspective of her childhood friend Will. I really wanted to like this book as there was a diverse cast of characters and a pretty unique plot, but I just have to be honest and say I did not enjoy it.
First of all, I could not look past the MANY grammatical, spelling, and phrasing errors throughout this book. I was highlighting mistakes on almost every page. This book really needed to be edited, especially since this wasn’t just a first draft but a book that’s currently for sale. Even spellcheck would have helped.
Apart from that, I just didn’t find the story or characters compelling. A big part of this was the pacing. The first half of the book had such fast pacing that I found I just didn’t have time to connect to any of the characters. There was a ton of telling and not showing the plot in that first half. Also, the romance part of the story just frustrated me as it was a ton of drama without any actual pay off. That epilogue also brought my star rating down to a one because it just felt so unnecessary and instead of it being an emotional end to the book, it ended up rendering the whole story kind of pointless in my opinion. I was SO frustrated reading that epilogue, man oh man.
Overall, this book wasn’t for me. I found myself just wanting to DNF it so many times and move on to something else. I’m not meaning for this to be a overly harsh review, but I just couldn’t bring myself to give this a higher rating. Perhaps after some editing, a revision of the pacing, and omitting the epilogue this could be an enjoyable read but I can not recommend this book at this time.
This book follows the story of a rising star named Ruby from the perspective of her childhood friend Will. I really wanted to like this book as there was a diverse cast of characters and a pretty unique plot, but I just have to be honest and say I did not enjoy it.
First of all, I could not look past the MANY grammatical, spelling, and phrasing errors throughout this book. I was highlighting mistakes on almost every page. This book really needed to be edited, especially since this wasn’t just a first draft but a book that’s currently for sale. Even spellcheck would have helped.
Apart from that, I just didn’t find the story or characters compelling. A big part of this was the pacing. The first half of the book had such fast pacing that I found I just didn’t have time to connect to any of the characters. There was a ton of telling and not showing the plot in that first half. Also, the romance part of the story just frustrated me as it was a ton of drama without any actual pay off. That epilogue also brought my star rating down to a one because it just felt so unnecessary and instead of it being an emotional end to the book, it ended up rendering the whole story kind of pointless in my opinion. I was SO frustrated reading that epilogue, man oh man.
Overall, this book wasn’t for me. I found myself just wanting to DNF it so many times and move on to something else. I’m not meaning for this to be a overly harsh review, but I just couldn’t bring myself to give this a higher rating. Perhaps after some editing, a revision of the pacing, and omitting the epilogue this could be an enjoyable read but I can not recommend this book at this time.