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I’m always hesitant about reading books by “Best-Selling” authors. But I tried to haven an open mind and, since this book had book reviews, I assume this may be a fine book.
Unless you are looking for a compendium of cheap clichés, you will be dissapointed. This is a mix of a soap opera + the walking dead (sans zombies) + general Wiccan crap. This is probably in my top-3 of the year words books and Top-10 worst books Lifetime Award®.
Suddenly there is a virus that wipes 80% of the population. The reason why seems kind of stupid (some guy kill a bird and their blood got mixed up and fell on the ground?). At the same some people start developing certain powers, making them faeries, witches, sorcerers or elves (nobody even tries to explain the difference among them). Miraculously, they know how to perform a series of quite specific rituals (purification, “magic shields”, etc.). Also, what’s the thing with the extra K in magick? I know is part of some esoteric lingo, but it’s simply annoying.
The character are shallow and unidimensional: The good guys are good because they are good, the bad ones are bad because they are bad. The main leader is someone that we know nothing about, except that he writes books. Nothing of his inner world, what he thinks, etc. The bad ones are simply bad, like, mustache twitching bad. Is that stupid. The plot twists are twist-less (and plot-less), you know exactly who the bad guys are on the second page they are introduced in the book.
BTW, there are non-white characters in this book, but as you would expect, they don’t matter. Everything is christian-ish / white-ish. Also, there is no real discussion of, you know, any religious explanation for what’s happening. Seriously? You got your faery wings and you don’t even try to explain it?
Now the dialogs: pretty much every conversation is irrelevant, boring or a combination of both. There is pretty much nothing worth knowing about the doctor visits, daily reports, discussions about laws, etc. You don’t learn anything about the characters, they don’t earn your empathy with it. The only useful information provided is who’s good and who’s bad. The dialogs between Lana and Max must be the cheesiest I’ve read in quite some time, stolen from a bad soap opera.
Something that I simply laugh at: At some point some raiders and other bad people are stealing and killing in New York City, but they leave a writing on a wall:
NEW YORK CITY IS OURS
THE RAIDERS
Seriously, what kind of misfits and psychopath would do something like that? Why not signing “The Bad Guys®” as well? Everything in this book is at that level of stupidity.
I could go on and on, but basically, this book is BAD: Bad world building, bad characters, bad plot, bad dialogs, lots of clichés. That’s it. I don’t think I’ll read another Nora book.
Unless you are looking for a compendium of cheap clichés, you will be dissapointed. This is a mix of a soap opera + the walking dead (sans zombies) + general Wiccan crap. This is probably in my top-3 of the year words books and Top-10 worst books Lifetime Award®.
Suddenly there is a virus that wipes 80% of the population. The reason why seems kind of stupid (some guy kill a bird and their blood got mixed up and fell on the ground?). At the same some people start developing certain powers, making them faeries, witches, sorcerers or elves (nobody even tries to explain the difference among them). Miraculously, they know how to perform a series of quite specific rituals (purification, “magic shields”, etc.). Also, what’s the thing with the extra K in magick? I know is part of some esoteric lingo, but it’s simply annoying.
The character are shallow and unidimensional: The good guys are good because they are good, the bad ones are bad because they are bad. The main leader is someone that we know nothing about, except that he writes books. Nothing of his inner world, what he thinks, etc. The bad ones are simply bad, like, mustache twitching bad. Is that stupid. The plot twists are twist-less (and plot-less), you know exactly who the bad guys are on the second page they are introduced in the book.
BTW, there are non-white characters in this book, but as you would expect, they don’t matter. Everything is christian-ish / white-ish. Also, there is no real discussion of, you know, any religious explanation for what’s happening. Seriously? You got your faery wings and you don’t even try to explain it?
Now the dialogs: pretty much every conversation is irrelevant, boring or a combination of both. There is pretty much nothing worth knowing about the doctor visits, daily reports, discussions about laws, etc. You don’t learn anything about the characters, they don’t earn your empathy with it. The only useful information provided is who’s good and who’s bad. The dialogs between Lana and Max must be the cheesiest I’ve read in quite some time, stolen from a bad soap opera.
Something that I simply laugh at: At some point some raiders and other bad people are stealing and killing in New York City, but they leave a writing on a wall:
NEW YORK CITY IS OURS
THE RAIDERS
Seriously, what kind of misfits and psychopath would do something like that? Why not signing “The Bad Guys®” as well? Everything in this book is at that level of stupidity.
I could go on and on, but basically, this book is BAD: Bad world building, bad characters, bad plot, bad dialogs, lots of clichés. That’s it. I don’t think I’ll read another Nora book.