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A review by melcanread
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Did not finish book. Stopped at 11%.
I really wanted to love this book, I just didn't.
As is typical for male authors, this book was just a summary. A summary of a world that I was thrust into with no explanation as to what anything was, but also a summary of characters I didn't know and couldn't care less about. It felt as though this book was a sequel to a story that I hadn't read yet, because I just felt so lost. The world building was fantastic, I just wish the reader had more of a set-up rather than being thrown headfirst into a book that quite frankly didn't make any sense, took itself too seriously, and tried to be more intelligent than it actually was.
I loved the LGBTQIA+ undertones, and the normalisation of it, and as I said, the world building was fantastic. But some explanation would have been great beforehand.
As is typical for male authors, this book was just a summary. A summary of a world that I was thrust into with no explanation as to what anything was, but also a summary of characters I didn't know and couldn't care less about. It felt as though this book was a sequel to a story that I hadn't read yet, because I just felt so lost. The world building was fantastic, I just wish the reader had more of a set-up rather than being thrown headfirst into a book that quite frankly didn't make any sense, took itself too seriously, and tried to be more intelligent than it actually was.
I loved the LGBTQIA+ undertones, and the normalisation of it, and as I said, the world building was fantastic. But some explanation would have been great beforehand.