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A review by cinnakuuri
Wayfarer by Alexandra Bracken
adventurous
challenging
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
can't quite believe that i managed to finish this book at all. if the first installment was buoyed by its intentional prose and structured storytelling, this one just seemed to exist for the sole purpose of stuffing up the plot holes.
i can tell the author struggled to make the original storyline a lot more diverse, but that ship has long sailed. if all we get as minority representation is a soggy cardboard cutout of a character in li min or a sloppy japanese phrase thrown in towards the end, i would rather not have seen it at all. isn't it enoough that i'm reminded that li min is chinese every five pages or so when etta isn't called the white girl nearly as often? i thought so.
same goes for sophia as the seemingly retconned lesbian rep. can't say i saw it coming, since there was no indication of it in the first book whatsoever.
also not a fan of plot twists for the sake of shock value—and i say this if only because for them to make sense the author feels the need to explain them afterwards. what's the whole nonsense about imprinting thrown in towards the end? the stakes feel cheapened when the characters are made to lose nothing of consequence until the final page.
i guess i finished this for the sake of saying i didn't leave any loose ends, unlike the author.
i can tell the author struggled to make the original storyline a lot more diverse, but that ship has long sailed. if all we get as minority representation is a soggy cardboard cutout of a character in li min or a sloppy japanese phrase thrown in towards the end, i would rather not have seen it at all. isn't it enoough that i'm reminded that li min is chinese every five pages or so when etta isn't called the white girl nearly as often? i thought so.
same goes for sophia as the seemingly retconned lesbian rep. can't say i saw it coming, since there was no indication of it in the first book whatsoever.
also not a fan of plot twists for the sake of shock value—and i say this if only because for them to make sense the author feels the need to explain them afterwards. what's the whole nonsense about imprinting thrown in towards the end? the stakes feel cheapened when the characters are made to lose nothing of consequence until the final page.
i guess i finished this for the sake of saying i didn't leave any loose ends, unlike the author.