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Wicked Saints
by Emily A. Duncan
Edit 23/6/19: I'm dropping my rating from 3 stars down to 2. I just read this review, and while I don't agree completely with everything, the review did hit on a lot of issues that I actually do have with the book but didn't quite know how to express. Especially the analysis of the religious aspects of the the book.
I honestly don't know how to rate this. On one hand [b:Wicked Saints|36118682|Wicked Saints (Something Dark and Holy, #1)|Emily A. Duncan|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1539378101s/36118682.jpg|57709985] was fine for the most part. But I'm also disappointed that I didn't like it as much as I thought I would.
So overall I think the world that Duncan is building in this series is great, and I'd like to see more of it, but there were just some things that I was (not positivily) surprised to see.
First of all, personally, I had expected it to feel eldritch if that makes sense? Like there are some weird descriptions sure, but it didn't measure up to what I expected based on fanart and the stuff I've seen/read on tumblr and twitter about the book. I expected to feel unsettled by parts, but I wasn't. I get that the blood magic can be triggering, but that's not the parts I have in mind here. The book just didn't make me feel how I expected, and it's a bit disappointing.
I did not expect Duncan to write something like the Rawalyk into the book. Luckily it didn't take up as much space as I feared it would.
So I'm multilingual, being fluent in Danish (my first language) and English, understanding and being able to read Norwegian and Swedish and speaking/reading some German and French. But I've got to admit that Polish is not on my list of languages I plan on learning, which means that most names of character, places and things in this book reads like an absolute jumbled mess of letters, which absolutely sucks. I know the author has a pronounciation guide somewhere on her social media, but I'm not going to look that up while I'm reading. I'm not entirely sure why the guide isn't in the actual book? I'd take a pronouciation guide over a map any day if I know there's a lot of hard to pronounce words/names in a book.
It just sucks so much that I didn't like this as much as I thought I would! I absolutely loved Duncan's short story in [b:Crows on Heartstrings: An Anthology of Doomed Love Stories|31428174|Crows on Heartstrings An Anthology of Doomed Love Stories|Aubrey Meeks|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1470938447s/31428174.jpg|52121682]. I guess I got too hyped for this..
Oh yeah! And this book smelled horrible when I got it. I have no idea what it was, but it took well over a week to get the smell out. I think that might have been the most disturbing part of reading this book!
I honestly don't know how to rate this. On one hand [b:Wicked Saints|36118682|Wicked Saints (Something Dark and Holy, #1)|Emily A. Duncan|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1539378101s/36118682.jpg|57709985] was fine for the most part. But I'm also disappointed that I didn't like it as much as I thought I would.
So overall I think the world that Duncan is building in this series is great, and I'd like to see more of it, but there were just some things that I was (not positivily) surprised to see.
First of all, personally, I had expected it to feel eldritch if that makes sense? Like there are some weird descriptions sure, but it didn't measure up to what I expected based on fanart and the stuff I've seen/read on tumblr and twitter about the book. I expected to feel unsettled by parts, but I wasn't. I get that the blood magic can be triggering, but that's not the parts I have in mind here. The book just didn't make me feel how I expected, and it's a bit disappointing.
I did not expect Duncan to write something like the Rawalyk into the book. Luckily it didn't take up as much space as I feared it would.
So I'm multilingual, being fluent in Danish (my first language) and English, understanding and being able to read Norwegian and Swedish and speaking/reading some German and French. But I've got to admit that Polish is not on my list of languages I plan on learning, which means that most names of character, places and things in this book reads like an absolute jumbled mess of letters, which absolutely sucks. I know the author has a pronounciation guide somewhere on her social media, but I'm not going to look that up while I'm reading. I'm not entirely sure why the guide isn't in the actual book? I'd take a pronouciation guide over a map any day if I know there's a lot of hard to pronounce words/names in a book.
It just sucks so much that I didn't like this as much as I thought I would! I absolutely loved Duncan's short story in [b:Crows on Heartstrings: An Anthology of Doomed Love Stories|31428174|Crows on Heartstrings An Anthology of Doomed Love Stories|Aubrey Meeks|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1470938447s/31428174.jpg|52121682]. I guess I got too hyped for this..
Oh yeah! And this book smelled horrible when I got it. I have no idea what it was, but it took well over a week to get the smell out. I think that might have been the most disturbing part of reading this book!