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A review by mollymortensen
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
4.0
A good book that could've been a great book of it was about 400 pages, (instead of 600.) There was just too much that was unnecessary and everything was too long. We didn't need a page of description for every character.
It starts really confusing, which makes sense, because the main character is confused, but I wanted answers faster! Less sleeping under a bridge, trying to buy shoes, ect. As much as I wanted to see his magic and for something to happen, I didn't like the whole trash monster thing battle. It was tedious and overly described. (I felt this way about half of the action scenes.)
As the book progresses, we realize that the main character (Mathew Swift, we find out his name on page 54) Knows the answer to most of our questions but just isn't telling. It also switches between I and my and we and our. (which is weird but makes sense eventually.)
Other than Mathew there weren't many good characters, because no one was in it for very long. There were quite a few characters who had potential, they were interesting enough, but they only had one scene in the whole book. The characters we kept seeing, Oda, Blackjack, and Sinclair were all rather boring and flat in comparison.
The best part was the world building or rather magic building.
Next are "spoilers" but should really have been on the back of the book or explained at the very beginning. (Instead of halfway through)
Aspects of the city are magical and therefore alive. Like the personification of the beggers or the bag lady, or the telephone lines, the voices in the wire who call themselves the blue angels and have spoken to Mathew since he was a child. "Come be we and be free" they said.
When he was killed by a living shadow he was able to make it to a phone booth and told the angels yes.
Now two years later, someone has brought him back. Mathew wants revenge and to find out who brought him back.
A man named Sinclair approaches him (which takes twice as much time as it needed to) and brings him to a meeting of the leaders of various magical groups who are fighting back against another sorcerer who has taken over the city. For Mathew wasn't the only one to die, just the first. After Mathew, every other sorcerer in the city was taken out, except for two. The leader of this new group who has taken over the magical underworld, and his apprentice. Mathew has a personal connection to both and he's the only one capable of taking them down.
Unfortunately, this information was painstakingly drawn out and not at all clearly explained. I was frustrated and confused for far too long!
Once the revenge got going (about page 200) it got good, (but even that took too long.) Things needed to be explained quicker and more clearly so the readers would know what the hell was going on.
Will I read the next book? Eh, maybe. If it's at the library or on sale for $2.
It starts really confusing, which makes sense, because the main character is confused, but I wanted answers faster! Less sleeping under a bridge, trying to buy shoes, ect. As much as I wanted to see his magic and for something to happen, I didn't like the whole trash monster thing battle. It was tedious and overly described. (I felt this way about half of the action scenes.)
As the book progresses, we realize that the main character (Mathew Swift, we find out his name on page 54) Knows the answer to most of our questions but just isn't telling. It also switches between I and my and we and our. (which is weird but makes sense eventually.)
Other than Mathew there weren't many good characters, because no one was in it for very long. There were quite a few characters who had potential, they were interesting enough, but they only had one scene in the whole book. The characters we kept seeing, Oda, Blackjack, and Sinclair were all rather boring and flat in comparison.
The best part was the world building or rather magic building.
Next are "spoilers" but should really have been on the back of the book or explained at the very beginning. (Instead of halfway through)
Spoiler
Aspects of the city are magical and therefore alive. Like the personification of the beggers or the bag lady, or the telephone lines, the voices in the wire who call themselves the blue angels and have spoken to Mathew since he was a child. "Come be we and be free" they said.
When he was killed by a living shadow he was able to make it to a phone booth and told the angels yes.
Now two years later, someone has brought him back. Mathew wants revenge and to find out who brought him back.
A man named Sinclair approaches him (which takes twice as much time as it needed to) and brings him to a meeting of the leaders of various magical groups who are fighting back against another sorcerer who has taken over the city. For Mathew wasn't the only one to die, just the first. After Mathew, every other sorcerer in the city was taken out, except for two. The leader of this new group who has taken over the magical underworld, and his apprentice. Mathew has a personal connection to both and he's the only one capable of taking them down.
Unfortunately, this information was painstakingly drawn out and not at all clearly explained. I was frustrated and confused for far too long!
Once the revenge got going (about page 200) it got good, (but even that took too long.) Things needed to be explained quicker and more clearly so the readers would know what the hell was going on.
Will I read the next book? Eh, maybe. If it's at the library or on sale for $2.