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Into This River I Drown
by TJ Klune
Sigh. This could have been a favorite.
The plot is incredible. I found myself with tears in my eyes more than once throughout this book. The fantastic elements are well written and engaging.
But. But. The pacing was off. It drags and it drags. Keeps going back to the same thing. Sometimes, there was so much description in the flashbacks that I even skipped whole paragraphs just to get back to the main story. And then other times, everything happened too quickly and all at once - a lot of action packed into not a lot of space. This made me take longer than I might have in different circumstances to read the book, because I needed time to process (and time to breathe, eh). And also, for a book that won a 'romance' prize, there is a surprizing lack of romance.
Nevertheless it's still a great story with characters I quickly grew attached to like Cal and Nina and Abe - not Benji though, I thought he was childish and ungrateful and prone to throwing temper tantrums.
So yeah... 4 stars. Maybe 3,5.
The plot is incredible. I found myself with tears in my eyes more than once throughout this book. The fantastic elements are well written and engaging.
But. But. The pacing was off. It drags and it drags. Keeps going back to the same thing. Sometimes, there was so much description in the flashbacks that I even skipped whole paragraphs just to get back to the main story. And then other times, everything happened too quickly and all at once - a lot of action packed into not a lot of space. This made me take longer than I might have in different circumstances to read the book, because I needed time to process (and time to breathe, eh). And also, for a book that won a 'romance' prize, there is a surprizing lack of romance.
Nevertheless it's still a great story with characters I quickly grew attached to like Cal and Nina and Abe - not Benji though, I thought he was childish and ungrateful and prone to throwing temper tantrums.
So yeah... 4 stars. Maybe 3,5.