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A review by pages_and_procrastination
Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brissett
Did not finish book. Stopped at 36%.
This was an e-arc that I received from Netgalley.
I was very optimistic when I first started this galley. Mostly because I had been wanting to read something by this author for a long time, and it immediately started with something I could become invested in. it was a bit confusing as to who the characters were and how they would all connect with each other. The writing was my taste - it was a bit to superfluous and flowery. But I was interested in what was going to happen to the missing kid, the talent of the twins and how the story was going to come together.
Then I woke up and realized that I had been reading this book for 4 days and had only made it 25% into the story. So I put a limit on how much time I was going to invest in this story. I spent an entire day focused mostly on reading as much as I could and found that as much as what was happening in the story, the pages weren't moving as quickly. Then there was a semi graphic rape scene of a kid so I started skipping over things. And then I quietly gave up. It wasn't just the sexual; and physical abuse of the children. it's that the girl grew up and fell in love with her abuser, even though she had the power to stop him. It was that even though his methods may have been wrong (human trafficking children) the reason behind making child soldiers was right. Maybe there are a lot of things that I missed. by jumping over scenes, but I couldn't get with those two things.
I was very optimistic when I first started this galley. Mostly because I had been wanting to read something by this author for a long time, and it immediately started with something I could become invested in. it was a bit confusing as to who the characters were and how they would all connect with each other. The writing was my taste - it was a bit to superfluous and flowery. But I was interested in what was going to happen to the missing kid, the talent of the twins and how the story was going to come together.
Then I woke up and realized that I had been reading this book for 4 days and had only made it 25% into the story. So I put a limit on how much time I was going to invest in this story. I spent an entire day focused mostly on reading as much as I could and found that as much as what was happening in the story, the pages weren't moving as quickly. Then there was a semi graphic rape scene of a kid so I started skipping over things. And then I quietly gave up. It wasn't just the sexual; and physical abuse of the children. it's that the girl grew up and fell in love with her abuser, even though she had the power to stop him. It was that even though his methods may have been wrong (human trafficking children) the reason behind making child soldiers was right. Maybe there are a lot of things that I missed. by jumping over scenes, but I couldn't get with those two things.