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peachprinceshane 's review for:
The Deck of Omens
by C.L. Herman
I don't know if it was because I ended up finishing this book during a pandemic, and the topic hits close to home, or if I just couldn't vibe with this book.
I bought DECK OF OMENS after feeling on/off reading THE DEVOURING GRAY. The ending picked up in the first book, prompting me to buy the second. The characters are the driving force of this story, for me, but even they seemed to lose themselves in the second book.
The description was fairly repetitive, and the end-game relationship between Isaac and Violet seemed forced, like the founder kids had to be paired up because there was potential. There was potential, but I didn't root for them--the dynamic just didn't seem as authentic as it was maybe meant to seem.
There were several logic/continuity questions, like when Violet was impaled during the ending battle but could sit up, and May considered her "seemed to be injured". I'm pretty sure she'd look extremely injured. Justin was looking to die whilst possessed but then simply described as sick, and that fact seemed to have been forgotten during the battle because he wasn't there, but for all what they thought was his impending death, he was barely thought of during the finale.
I thought the ending was anticlimatic and the battle was kind of messily done.
However, the plot twists in this book were many and impactful, and the atmosphere was done much better than everything else. It took me a while to keep reading this, to be truly gripped, and I know Christine Lynn Herman wrote this from a personal perspective, and I respect that. For me, personally, I just couldn't vibe with the story but I'd love to see future books.
I bought DECK OF OMENS after feeling on/off reading THE DEVOURING GRAY. The ending picked up in the first book, prompting me to buy the second. The characters are the driving force of this story, for me, but even they seemed to lose themselves in the second book.
The description was fairly repetitive, and the end-game relationship between Isaac and Violet seemed forced, like the founder kids had to be paired up because there was potential. There was potential, but I didn't root for them--the dynamic just didn't seem as authentic as it was maybe meant to seem.
There were several logic/continuity questions, like when Violet was impaled during the ending battle but could sit up, and May considered her "seemed to be injured". I'm pretty sure she'd look extremely injured. Justin was looking to die whilst possessed but then simply described as sick, and that fact seemed to have been forgotten during the battle because he wasn't there, but for all what they thought was his impending death, he was barely thought of during the finale.
I thought the ending was anticlimatic and the battle was kind of messily done.
However, the plot twists in this book were many and impactful, and the atmosphere was done much better than everything else. It took me a while to keep reading this, to be truly gripped, and I know Christine Lynn Herman wrote this from a personal perspective, and I respect that. For me, personally, I just couldn't vibe with the story but I'd love to see future books.