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A review by maggers94
Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
This was just okay for me. I was bored for a lot of this and couldn't really buy into the whole smoking, tattooed, queer former addict turned nun story, mostly because Sister Holiday's background is revealed so slowly. I get there's supposed to be a build-up to the reveal of what was the catalyst to her choosing to join the convent, but I think I needed more upfront to build out Sister Holiday as a character.
It just felt a little hollow to start without having much to go off of and flesh out her as a character. I need more than a list of adjectives to find her compelling, and it took forever to get her full story. The story of the events leading up to when she became a nun is one of the only aspects of the book that actually had me invested and is way more intriguing than the mystery aspect, which has a very predictable ending. Her entire background story could have been a book in and of itself and would have been far more interesting.
The other characters feel somewhat thrown together as well, and their story lines feel very unfinished. It feels like you're led to ask lots of questions about each of the side characters and a lot of them are unanswered in the end. Rosemary, John, Bernard, Prince, Nina, all feel just kind of tossed to the side in the end. In general, the plot was kind of all over the place and lots of pieces felt disjointed or didn't really add anything to the story . I think there's a good concept here that a lot could be done with, but the execution was just lackluster for me.
It just felt a little hollow to start without having much to go off of and flesh out her as a character. I need more than a list of adjectives to find her compelling, and it took forever to get her full story. The story of the events leading up to when she became a nun is one of the only aspects of the book that actually had me invested and is way more intriguing than the mystery aspect, which has a very predictable ending. Her entire background story could have been a book in and of itself and would have been far more interesting.
The other characters feel somewhat thrown together as well, and their story lines feel very unfinished. It feels like you're led to ask lots of questions about each of the side characters and a lot of them are unanswered in the end. Rosemary, John, Bernard, Prince, Nina, all feel just kind of tossed to the side in the end. In general, the plot was kind of all over the place and lots of pieces felt disjointed or didn't really add anything to the story . I think there's a good concept here that a lot could be done with, but the execution was just lackluster for me.