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A review by readingundertheradar
Above by Leah Bobet
1.0
See more reviews on my blog at http://happybooklovers-a-gogo.blogspot.com
I don't do this very often, but I had to give up. I made it almost to the end. About 250 pages in. And I still have no idea what is happening. The narrator has apparently never learned to speak properly or use real words, which is fine in some cases. But that, mixed with his use of proper nouns was too much. Some random words (it seems like) are capitalized, and then on second reference aren't, and sometimes he's talking about a thing and sometimes a person. I can't keep straight which is which and it's all entirely too confusing.
The book also jumps the reader right in the middle, which again, is fine in some cases. But then the author never went back and explained the things or what was going on, contributing to the "me not understanding anything in this book" feeling. I feel like this was the fourth in a series and I missed all the important explanation books. But I didn't.
I also don't read the blurbs before I start books. That's a personal thing. I like to be surprised. But there's surprised and there's confusing. Nowhere in the book did it tell the reader that Ariel was a bee. I was shocked when I flipped it over. I was picturing this weird fairy thing. We were offered no explanations behind the characters' powers, and some descriptions only existed in the blurb. Which I don't think is the way to write a book. I was excited to read this, but was left extremely disappointed and frustrated. I felt stupid that I didn't know what was going on, which was maddening. Not worth it for me.
I don't do this very often, but I had to give up. I made it almost to the end. About 250 pages in. And I still have no idea what is happening. The narrator has apparently never learned to speak properly or use real words, which is fine in some cases. But that, mixed with his use of proper nouns was too much. Some random words (it seems like) are capitalized, and then on second reference aren't, and sometimes he's talking about a thing and sometimes a person. I can't keep straight which is which and it's all entirely too confusing.
The book also jumps the reader right in the middle, which again, is fine in some cases. But then the author never went back and explained the things or what was going on, contributing to the "me not understanding anything in this book" feeling. I feel like this was the fourth in a series and I missed all the important explanation books. But I didn't.
I also don't read the blurbs before I start books. That's a personal thing. I like to be surprised. But there's surprised and there's confusing. Nowhere in the book did it tell the reader that Ariel was a bee. I was shocked when I flipped it over. I was picturing this weird fairy thing. We were offered no explanations behind the characters' powers, and some descriptions only existed in the blurb. Which I don't think is the way to write a book. I was excited to read this, but was left extremely disappointed and frustrated. I felt stupid that I didn't know what was going on, which was maddening. Not worth it for me.