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A review by emilyrainsford
When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
Did not finish book. Stopped at 6%.
If you read Fourth Wing and thought "wow this is so well written, but it'd be even better if every second sentence was an overwritten simile!" - then boy do I have the book for you.
DNF page 61
Each to their own bla bla bla but I just could notttttt with the writing in this book. Even getting through the prologue felt like a struggle but I thought maybe I would get into it. After 9 chapters, a quick Goodreads check assured me that the issues I was already having weren't going to magically change, so YOLO, off for greener pastures.
This was all within a few paragraphs:
"My lungs pull full of his scent, deep and drugging, like smelted stone topped with a ladle of cream."
(I'm sorry, like WHAT?)
"His dense voice skims my heart like flint scoured across stone, leaving a residue of sparks that crackle through my icy bloodstream"
"My words are sultry smooth, passed to him like a ballad I'm certain he's going to appreciate less than the songs I sang all slumber"
Make it stop ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
When it's not a simile so elaborate and weird that I've forgotten what the hell is happening by the end of the sentence - it's sentence fragments. So many fragments. Annoying me.
Annoying me a lot 😩
You know it's a fantasy though, cos they say "dae" instead of "day".
Beautiful cover though, like chocolate that's been put in the fridge for just the right amount of time and then devoured by my eyes like ravenous cerulean twin mouths.
THANK YOU NEXT
DNF page 61
Each to their own bla bla bla but I just could notttttt with the writing in this book. Even getting through the prologue felt like a struggle but I thought maybe I would get into it. After 9 chapters, a quick Goodreads check assured me that the issues I was already having weren't going to magically change, so YOLO, off for greener pastures.
This was all within a few paragraphs:
"My lungs pull full of his scent, deep and drugging, like smelted stone topped with a ladle of cream."
(I'm sorry, like WHAT?)
"His dense voice skims my heart like flint scoured across stone, leaving a residue of sparks that crackle through my icy bloodstream"
"My words are sultry smooth, passed to him like a ballad I'm certain he's going to appreciate less than the songs I sang all slumber"
Make it stop ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
When it's not a simile so elaborate and weird that I've forgotten what the hell is happening by the end of the sentence - it's sentence fragments. So many fragments. Annoying me.
Annoying me a lot 😩
You know it's a fantasy though, cos they say "dae" instead of "day".
Beautiful cover though, like chocolate that's been put in the fridge for just the right amount of time and then devoured by my eyes like ravenous cerulean twin mouths.
THANK YOU NEXT