Scan barcode
A review by sylvilel
The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
Yeah, I’m bailing on this one too.
Too much religious ranting, for one, which gets exceedingly boring after 1/6 of the book.
And while I do love a good wood-traversing, travel adventure complete with dark magic and impending romance, this just doesn’t cut it for me.
The pacing takes four steps back for each one forward. Our POV is thrust into action with very little preamble, giving us basically no time to get invested in her before her world is turned over. We don’t know what her motivations are, we don’t get to see what she’s capable or not capable of, and yet we’re expected to care for her right off the top.
The whole ‘my religion versus your religion’ debacle is just MEH.
We’re promised darkness and horrors as one of the main courses of this meal, yet the author seem very eager to brush past them, thereby robbing us of the reward.
Side characters are just that - sidekicks without any other mission than to serve as the fluff in the pillows, and make the main characters look awesome. They might as well be a pair of eyes on a stick for all we care.
I don’t mind a novel being all about the romance and all that - but if the romance is the important bit - don’t promise us so much else.
Too much religious ranting, for one, which gets exceedingly boring after 1/6 of the book.
And while I do love a good wood-traversing, travel adventure complete with dark magic and impending romance, this just doesn’t cut it for me.
The pacing takes four steps back for each one forward. Our POV is thrust into action with very little preamble, giving us basically no time to get invested in her before her world is turned over. We don’t know what her motivations are, we don’t get to see what she’s capable or not capable of, and yet we’re expected to care for her right off the top.
The whole ‘my religion versus your religion’ debacle is just MEH.
We’re promised darkness and horrors as one of the main courses of this meal, yet the author seem very eager to brush past them, thereby robbing us of the reward.
Side characters are just that - sidekicks without any other mission than to serve as the fluff in the pillows, and make the main characters look awesome. They might as well be a pair of eyes on a stick for all we care.
I don’t mind a novel being all about the romance and all that - but if the romance is the important bit - don’t promise us so much else.