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A review by aerwen
Kiss the Fae by Natalia Jaster
Did not finish book.
2.0
I’m only into chapter 3 and I had to consider if I should continue reading this! There were too many flowery words and almost incomprehensible purple prose. I’m finding it difficult to follow conversations and understand sentences that should be simple. You know when you’re reading something and you’re not really taking it in….just glossing over the words? That’s what reading this book feels like!
It seems like this author wrote the book normally and then went through with a thesaurus replacing common words with obscure language. Technically the words work but they don’t really fit that well with the meaning of the sentence. I found myself contemplating what the author was trying to convey. It really messes up the flow and is super distracting.
In spite of the extravagant word usage, the story still suffered from too much telling and not enough showing.
It’s a shame because the story is very intriguing! I feel if this was written with more natural storytelling, rather than trying to be super stylistic and obscure, it would be a great read.
It seems like this author wrote the book normally and then went through with a thesaurus replacing common words with obscure language. Technically the words work but they don’t really fit that well with the meaning of the sentence. I found myself contemplating what the author was trying to convey. It really messes up the flow and is super distracting.
In spite of the extravagant word usage, the story still suffered from too much telling and not enough showing.
It’s a shame because the story is very intriguing! I feel if this was written with more natural storytelling, rather than trying to be super stylistic and obscure, it would be a great read.