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laura03 's review for:
Disenchanted
by Brianna Sugalski
I am a simple lady. I read about a dude who is described as "striking," who is also clearly frustrated by how into the heroine he is and is capable of snarky banter with the aforementioned heroine and I am into it. Like, both the character and the book. So what I am saying is that I was into both Garin and Disenchanted.
Plus, look at him on that cover.
Yeah, ok.
Points to Lilac for being able to hold her own with the banter, too. It would have been easy for her to spend most of the book whining (and she did whine, but, in acceptable amounts) so I appreciated that, for the most part, she went toe to toe and didn't do much cowering. Impressive, since it'd been, like, a decade since she'd interacted with anyone, really.
Plus! The magic was cool. The world building was legit. Having a forest full of so-called Darklings right next to a quasi-historical kingdom was different than anything I've read recently and the political implications were a good jumping off point story-wise. There were some instances where it was a little confusing as to what was happening, but that was more a result of some strange text formatting and editing than anything else. Whoever edited this book did not seem to realize that you need another quotation mark at the start of a new paragraph when splitting up dialogue. So, occasionally I'd be reading, someone would be talking, they'd still be talking, but there was no sign that they were doing that.
(Also, the random switched perspective was...weird? Decidedly random? I'm not sure it really added much to the overall book because I still had questions even after reading the chapter from the perspective of the character it was happening to?)
I was admittedly expecting a bit more out of Lilac's ability and the ending all felt a bit rushed, with most of Garin's issues just totally glossed over, but those were little things to set up what I am assuming is a sequel, and, really, my biggest issue with the whole story was the pacing of it. Everything happened so quickly! How many hours were in each of these days?! They'd known each other for what? Two days and were kissing? I honestly could not tell how much time had passed. Sometimes I was exhausted just reading about all of it!
Still, I'm psyched that there will be more to this world and more to Lilac and Garin and hopefully they will discuss that sometimes glaring age difference and then both of them get to sit down occasionally.
Plus, look at him on that cover.
Yeah, ok.
Points to Lilac for being able to hold her own with the banter, too. It would have been easy for her to spend most of the book whining (and she did whine, but, in acceptable amounts) so I appreciated that, for the most part, she went toe to toe and didn't do much cowering. Impressive, since it'd been, like, a decade since she'd interacted with anyone, really.
Plus! The magic was cool. The world building was legit. Having a forest full of so-called Darklings right next to a quasi-historical kingdom was different than anything I've read recently and the political implications were a good jumping off point story-wise. There were some instances where it was a little confusing as to what was happening, but that was more a result of some strange text formatting and editing than anything else. Whoever edited this book did not seem to realize that you need another quotation mark at the start of a new paragraph when splitting up dialogue. So, occasionally I'd be reading, someone would be talking, they'd still be talking, but there was no sign that they were doing that.
(Also, the random switched perspective was...weird? Decidedly random? I'm not sure it really added much to the overall book because I still had questions even after reading the chapter from the perspective of the character it was happening to?)
I was admittedly expecting a bit more out of Lilac's ability and the ending all felt a bit rushed, with most of Garin's issues just totally glossed over, but those were little things to set up what I am assuming is a sequel, and, really, my biggest issue with the whole story was the pacing of it. Everything happened so quickly! How many hours were in each of these days?! They'd known each other for what? Two days and were kissing? I honestly could not tell how much time had passed. Sometimes I was exhausted just reading about all of it!
Still, I'm psyched that there will be more to this world and more to Lilac and Garin and hopefully they will discuss that sometimes glaring age difference and then both of them get to sit down occasionally.