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A review by robynjstanley
The Snows of Nissa by Isabella Khalidi
1.0
1.5 ⭐
This took all my strength not to DNF.
The world building was non-existent. I honestly didn't even think this was a fantasy book at all until a slight hint to a magical element was randomly sprung on me about a third of the way in, with zero context and no explanation. I thought I'd missed something.
And then suddenly, we're completely overwhelmed with pages and pages of info-dumping, through the lazy form of characters randomly telling each other long-winded stories out of nowhere. Hard to read and endless paragraphs of it.
The relationship between the MCs is 0-100. Insta-lust at it's finest, and I don't mean that in a good way. They have like two measly, miniscule interactions and then all of a sudden are acting as though they have this deep, angsty, romantic connection full of yearning, when they've literally barely just met.
It's so forced, there's no chemistry apart from what we're told about them. There's no showing of anything in the entire book. There's no depth or substance to any of the characters, they have zero personality. And what personality they do have is massively inconsistent, their actions constantly make no sense.
And the writing itself is so bad. It was so hard to concentrate with how overwritten the prose is, too flowery and trying to be overly verbose. The word choices were at times so bizarre. Even in the dialogue, the verbose language would transfer over into the characters speech and made zero sense whatsoever. The characters spoke so formally at all times and every other word would have some kind of unnecessary adjective in front of it. People don't talk like that!
That, paired with the numerous grammatical errors made it so hard to read and took me out of the book so often.
The plot in itself had some potential I guess, and there was enough intrigue created for me to be curious about where everything was headed. Despite my many negative feelings for this book I actually was tempted to try a couple chapters of the next one to see where it went, as there are a lot of threads still unresolved, but unfortunately I cannot put myself through reading any more from this author.
Where all these positive reviews came from I will never know.
This took all my strength not to DNF.
The world building was non-existent. I honestly didn't even think this was a fantasy book at all until a slight hint to a magical element was randomly sprung on me about a third of the way in, with zero context and no explanation. I thought I'd missed something.
And then suddenly, we're completely overwhelmed with pages and pages of info-dumping, through the lazy form of characters randomly telling each other long-winded stories out of nowhere. Hard to read and endless paragraphs of it.
The relationship between the MCs is 0-100. Insta-lust at it's finest, and I don't mean that in a good way. They have like two measly, miniscule interactions and then all of a sudden are acting as though they have this deep, angsty, romantic connection full of yearning, when they've literally barely just met.
It's so forced, there's no chemistry apart from what we're told about them. There's no showing of anything in the entire book. There's no depth or substance to any of the characters, they have zero personality. And what personality they do have is massively inconsistent, their actions constantly make no sense.
And the writing itself is so bad. It was so hard to concentrate with how overwritten the prose is, too flowery and trying to be overly verbose. The word choices were at times so bizarre. Even in the dialogue, the verbose language would transfer over into the characters speech and made zero sense whatsoever. The characters spoke so formally at all times and every other word would have some kind of unnecessary adjective in front of it. People don't talk like that!
That, paired with the numerous grammatical errors made it so hard to read and took me out of the book so often.
The plot in itself had some potential I guess, and there was enough intrigue created for me to be curious about where everything was headed. Despite my many negative feelings for this book I actually was tempted to try a couple chapters of the next one to see where it went, as there are a lot of threads still unresolved, but unfortunately I cannot put myself through reading any more from this author.
Where all these positive reviews came from I will never know.