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A review by swampbooks
Nocturne by Alyssa Wees
2.0
2.5 stars | Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!
This would have been an enthralling tale of love and death if the writing wasn’t so exhaustive. When used sparingly, extensive descriptions can be a heart-gripping method of building up to something big. They lost their magic in Nocture because they were used so excessively. Not everything needs to be described in poetic detail. The book would be half its length if the prose was removed - there was no real meat to the story because of it.
You got that from five words? The language is pretty, but c’mon.
This would have been an enthralling tale of love and death if the writing wasn’t so exhaustive. When used sparingly, extensive descriptions can be a heart-gripping method of building up to something big. They lost their magic in Nocture because they were used so excessively. Not everything needs to be described in poetic detail. The book would be half its length if the prose was removed - there was no real meat to the story because of it.
“What are you doing here?”
A voice at my back, dry and deep, like a black patch of soil where a rosebush once thrived but then died in an unexpected drought, and now nothing will grow there again. Stripped of softness, shorn of beauty, abandoned by light and life.
You got that from five words? The language is pretty, but c’mon.