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A review by vuchs
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
3.0
Phew, I don't know either. I kept thinking about stopping the book, but then couldn't. (I hate not finishing something and rarely do).
And now? I don't know.
I have to say that I found the writing style generally very enjoyable. Nice sentence structure, great paraphrasing and you were able to really empathise with it.
But I found the phrasing of the characters living in Sarn exhausting. It was a strange mixture of "old" and "regionally peculiar" with an added "fuck" when something went wrong.
No, just not my jam.
I found the world-building and backstory exciting and cool, and I was also very intrigued by the Ebora with their War Beasts and Tree God. Plus the Jure'lia (and everything that goes with it) and the Parasite Spirits. All cool and exciting!
What I think I had the most problems with (apart from the characters' speech) was ... the characters themselves. And that's just shit.
I liked Noon very much and also Aldasair and Bern.
Unfortunately, I didn't warm up to Vintage and Tormalin at all ... and those are two of the three protagonists. I can understand that it takes a character like Vintage to get everything going (otherwise the constellation would never have come into being), but she unfortunately just gets on my nerves a lot and I just can't hear the "my dear" anymore. Tormalin (when he's not having cool chemistry with Noon) ... I dunno, just not my kind of character.
I don't know yet if I want to read on - it also feels wrong not to finish the trilogy, but I guess ... the urge to read the other two books is just not that big either.
And now? I don't know.
I have to say that I found the writing style generally very enjoyable. Nice sentence structure, great paraphrasing and you were able to really empathise with it.
But I found the phrasing of the characters living in Sarn exhausting. It was a strange mixture of "old" and "regionally peculiar" with an added "fuck" when something went wrong.
No, just not my jam.
I found the world-building and backstory exciting and cool, and I was also very intrigued by the Ebora with their War Beasts and Tree God. Plus the Jure'lia (and everything that goes with it) and the Parasite Spirits. All cool and exciting!
What I think I had the most problems with (apart from the characters' speech) was ... the characters themselves. And that's just shit.
I liked Noon very much and also Aldasair and Bern.
Unfortunately, I didn't warm up to Vintage and Tormalin at all ... and those are two of the three protagonists. I can understand that it takes a character like Vintage to get everything going (otherwise the constellation would never have come into being), but she unfortunately just gets on my nerves a lot and I just can't hear the "my dear" anymore. Tormalin (when he's not having cool chemistry with Noon) ... I dunno, just not my kind of character.
I don't know yet if I want to read on - it also feels wrong not to finish the trilogy, but I guess ... the urge to read the other two books is just not that big either.