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A review by leanmrgreen
The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman
1.0
I'm actually surprised I read this one all the way to the finish. I guess that has to be a testament to the writing and the one star I gave. As for the characters, I couldn't relate. Not one ounce of sympathy or caring was given for the main character. That might be because I'm neither teenaged nor female.
The main character was always dark and dreary. The woe-is-me type. "The world sucks because my brother is dead. The world sucks because my parents don't give me attention. I'll just stick to translating Latin to English to avoid all of these boys hitting on me, even though I don't think I'm hot." I summarized there.
Did you want to throw up? A little?
Me.
Too.
What should have been a fun treasure-hunt style novel was heavily overshadowed by this bleak mentality. I was hoping the ending would make up for it.
It didn't.
Don't waste your time. Move on to something else.
The main character was always dark and dreary. The woe-is-me type. "The world sucks because my brother is dead. The world sucks because my parents don't give me attention. I'll just stick to translating Latin to English to avoid all of these boys hitting on me, even though I don't think I'm hot." I summarized there.
Did you want to throw up? A little?
Me.
Too.
What should have been a fun treasure-hunt style novel was heavily overshadowed by this bleak mentality. I was hoping the ending would make up for it.
It didn't.
Don't waste your time. Move on to something else.