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A review by tellasdantes
The Forsaken Souls by Varsha Ravi
2.0
rating before dnf: 1.5 stars
thank you to netgalley for providing me with the arc for me to provide an honest review.
i have never been more upset to dnf a book before. and i don't dnf books very often but something about this particular book didn't stick. at all.
i enjoyed .. maybe 2 chapters out of the many i read before giving up. the writing in the heartless divine was flowery, poetic, beautiful. and although i definitely had to look words up during it, it flowed so well you did not mind having to do that. but it wasn't the same with the forsaken souls unfortunately. it almost felt at times that i was putting more work into reading this arc and trying to work out what words meant, than i have in my entire educational life. i haven't looked up words that much in readings for university. i understand flowery language, as i said it worked really well in the heartless divine which i rated 5 stars because i loved it and surikiran so much. however, sometimes it felt with this book that these big words were used just to prove that the author could. and honestly, it took me right out of the plot (which was also all over the place).
surikiran is and will continue to be one of my favourite book couples. but if you're looking to see more of them together, i wouldn't read this book. they're barely in any scenes together and go off on their own plots (which is fine, apart from the fact i felt sometimes they jumped out of character). and i just .. expected more ? i don't know.
i however did really like the idea of kiran's storyline, and i felt it worked well following on from the heartless divine. it didn't however work with the 78 other plots that were currently happening at the same time.
maybe i'll be able to pick up a physical copy of the forsaken souls once published and actually get myself through the entire thing, but i unfortunately couldn't do it with the arc.
thank you to netgalley for providing me with the arc for me to provide an honest review.
i have never been more upset to dnf a book before. and i don't dnf books very often but something about this particular book didn't stick. at all.
i enjoyed .. maybe 2 chapters out of the many i read before giving up. the writing in the heartless divine was flowery, poetic, beautiful. and although i definitely had to look words up during it, it flowed so well you did not mind having to do that. but it wasn't the same with the forsaken souls unfortunately. it almost felt at times that i was putting more work into reading this arc and trying to work out what words meant, than i have in my entire educational life. i haven't looked up words that much in readings for university. i understand flowery language, as i said it worked really well in the heartless divine which i rated 5 stars because i loved it and surikiran so much. however, sometimes it felt with this book that these big words were used just to prove that the author could. and honestly, it took me right out of the plot (which was also all over the place).
surikiran is and will continue to be one of my favourite book couples. but if you're looking to see more of them together, i wouldn't read this book. they're barely in any scenes together and go off on their own plots (which is fine, apart from the fact i felt sometimes they jumped out of character). and i just .. expected more ? i don't know.
i however did really like the idea of kiran's storyline, and i felt it worked well following on from the heartless divine. it didn't however work with the 78 other plots that were currently happening at the same time.
maybe i'll be able to pick up a physical copy of the forsaken souls once published and actually get myself through the entire thing, but i unfortunately couldn't do it with the arc.