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sarah_tellesbo 's review for:
Year One
by Nora Roberts
I wanted to like this book. There were components that I did like, but the book as a whole was somewhat of a disappointment.
Roberts started strong with a classic dystopian-apocalyptic-style worldwide plague, but what could have been a strong storyline got all kinds of sidetracked when she started in on the supernatural. I could have handled it if she had limited herself to just one category of supernatural, but she somehow incorporated everything from witches and shapeshifters to elves and faeries. Somewhere in the midst of dark magic, light magic, ‘a rip in the fabric,’ The Doom (her version of the plague that decimated humanity), and a fetus with otherworldly powers… she lost me a bit.
I did like some of her characters– Fred the female faerie was particularly delightful– but it just wasn’t enough to rescue me from my overarching confusion and distraction. I’ll likely give this series one more go and read the second book (out in December 2018) just because I do like said characters, but my hopes aren’t particularly high.
Fingers crossed Roberts can sort things out in Book II.
Roberts started strong with a classic dystopian-apocalyptic-style worldwide plague, but what could have been a strong storyline got all kinds of sidetracked when she started in on the supernatural. I could have handled it if she had limited herself to just one category of supernatural, but she somehow incorporated everything from witches and shapeshifters to elves and faeries. Somewhere in the midst of dark magic, light magic, ‘a rip in the fabric,’ The Doom (her version of the plague that decimated humanity), and a fetus with otherworldly powers… she lost me a bit.
I did like some of her characters– Fred the female faerie was particularly delightful– but it just wasn’t enough to rescue me from my overarching confusion and distraction. I’ll likely give this series one more go and read the second book (out in December 2018) just because I do like said characters, but my hopes aren’t particularly high.
Fingers crossed Roberts can sort things out in Book II.