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Nevernight
by Jay Kristoff
We're giving this one a very polite no thank you.
Polite because its story did hold my interest and there were some interesting characters.
No thank you because of several reasons:
First of all, the style... was annoying. The similes and metaphors were over-the-top flowery and strange. A new universe's language sometimes takes some getting used to, but the ones here never stopped being jarring. (Sunsset, noonmeal/evemeal/mornmeal, sweetboy, saying "O" all the freaking time.) The way the narrator addressed the reader was so dramatic and overblown. The gimmicky mirroring of the perspectives at the beginning was almost INTOLERABLE. I wanted to set the book down right then.
Fortunately, it does get somewhat better, but I wouldn't say it approaches normal until more than halfway through the book. But second of all, even if you get past how it is written, there are sex scenes. There is dramatic, oh-I'm-so-funny swearing and vulgarity that mostly fails to be amusing. There are way too many scenes that seem embarrassingly self-aware, like they know that they were written blatantly for the purpose of making the reader sit back, whistle to themselves, and say, That was awesome.
Cringey. Tryhard.
I'm just not convinced by this book. I'm not convinced by Mia. The only thing that makes me want to pick up the next installment is the mysterious fate of Mia's brother, which isn't nearly enough.
Polite because its story did hold my interest and there were some interesting characters.
No thank you because of several reasons:
First of all, the style... was annoying. The similes and metaphors were over-the-top flowery and strange. A new universe's language sometimes takes some getting used to, but the ones here never stopped being jarring. (Sunsset, noonmeal/evemeal/mornmeal, sweetboy, saying "O" all the freaking time.) The way the narrator addressed the reader was so dramatic and overblown. The gimmicky mirroring of the perspectives at the beginning was almost INTOLERABLE. I wanted to set the book down right then.
Fortunately, it does get somewhat better, but I wouldn't say it approaches normal until more than halfway through the book. But second of all, even if you get past how it is written, there are sex scenes. There is dramatic, oh-I'm-so-funny swearing and vulgarity that mostly fails to be amusing. There are way too many scenes that seem embarrassingly self-aware, like they know that they were written blatantly for the purpose of making the reader sit back, whistle to themselves, and say, That was awesome.
Cringey. Tryhard.
I'm just not convinced by this book. I'm not convinced by Mia. The only thing that makes me want to pick up the next installment is the mysterious fate of Mia's brother, which isn't nearly enough.