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emmarj 's review for:
Kingdom of Souls
by Rena Barron
I'm so disappointed in this one. I really wanted to love it and I still do love the idea of it. Not only does the world feel like too much too fast for a first book, it also feels unbalanced and the pacing really suffers from that.
We're introduced to SO MANY characters and given multiple names for them. Like we're introduced to this priestess and the book calls her priestess half the time, and then by her actual name the other half of the time. So double the confusion. We meet so many people so quickly that we never learn many significant things about them for them to stick out as individual characters.
We're introduced to 71 tribes or clans or whatever and you'll be needing a notebook for that because it's very difficult to keep straight.
I'm a King fan, I'm a Jordan fan, I hate Martin but I read him anyway: huge worlds and casts of characters are not a problem for me. But they have to stand out and they have to be able to stand on their own two feet. That's not the case in Kingdom of Souls.
The book is super depressing, gloom and doom, as the main character lements her lack of magic for well over 100 pages. It's very repetitive.
Overall, despite the cool premise of the book, it never feels fresh.
We're introduced to SO MANY characters and given multiple names for them. Like we're introduced to this priestess and the book calls her priestess half the time, and then by her actual name the other half of the time. So double the confusion. We meet so many people so quickly that we never learn many significant things about them for them to stick out as individual characters.
We're introduced to 71 tribes or clans or whatever and you'll be needing a notebook for that because it's very difficult to keep straight.
I'm a King fan, I'm a Jordan fan, I hate Martin but I read him anyway: huge worlds and casts of characters are not a problem for me. But they have to stand out and they have to be able to stand on their own two feet. That's not the case in Kingdom of Souls.
The book is super depressing, gloom and doom, as the main character lements her lack of magic for well over 100 pages. It's very repetitive.
Overall, despite the cool premise of the book, it never feels fresh.