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A review by someonetookit
The Raven's Tale by Cat Winters
3.0
ACTUAL RATING: 2.5 stars
So I went into this as a little bit of a fangirl of Poe's works and with fairly high expectations. Alas, while the story was interesting in parts, I just couldn't particularly connect with it.
On opening this novel, I was expecting a kind of romance between Poe and his muse Lenore. Instead I got a kind of whingy Poe, a fairly bland girlfriend in Elmira and Lenore being so ridiculously cryptic and needy that I initially wanted to close and DNF the book.
Around the 35-40% mark, this story stagnated hardcore and took a long while to pick up the pace again.
Although it was an adequate telling of a tale of Poe, it lacked the grit and polish that I had expected
I received an advanced reading copy from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions within are that of the author and have no been influenced by the publisher or it's affiliates
So I went into this as a little bit of a fangirl of Poe's works and with fairly high expectations. Alas, while the story was interesting in parts, I just couldn't particularly connect with it.
On opening this novel, I was expecting a kind of romance between Poe and his muse Lenore. Instead I got a kind of whingy Poe, a fairly bland girlfriend in Elmira and Lenore being so ridiculously cryptic and needy that I initially wanted to close and DNF the book.
Around the 35-40% mark, this story stagnated hardcore and took a long while to pick up the pace again.
Although it was an adequate telling of a tale of Poe, it lacked the grit and polish that I had expected
I received an advanced reading copy from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions within are that of the author and have no been influenced by the publisher or it's affiliates