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A review by amywilke
The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence
slow-paced
3.0
This book was a struggle to get through. Wasn’t for me and wouldn’t personally recommend.
It had elements of a good fantasy - character development, creative world building, themes of xenophobia/ethics/ pursuit of knowledge/cyclical nature of civilization and war, but it just didn’t execute well for me. Pacing was uneven as well - sometimes the plot was advancing quickly (mainly when Livira and Evar were together, which was never), but most of the times it just dragged.
It had elements of a good fantasy - character development, creative world building, themes of xenophobia/ethics/ pursuit of knowledge/cyclical nature of civilization and war, but it just didn’t execute well for me. Pacing was uneven as well - sometimes the plot was advancing quickly (mainly when Livira and Evar were together, which was never), but most of the times it just dragged.