Scan barcode
A review by leutheuser
The Root: A Novel of the Wrath & Athenaeum by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun
Did not finish book.
2.0
DNF at 20%
Too many POV characters and the story moved forward at a crawl. You barely get a feel for a character before the POV switches to a new one. The writing is okay, functional though clumsy at times. The world building confused me rather than enthralled me, which is too bad because it has some creative ideas. Maybe because the reader is thrown into a new world before we even get a strong grounding in the first one.
I want to like this book. There's a lot going on. I love the diverse set of characters (YES!) and basic world building concepts. The actual story telling just didn't grab me. Before giving up, I thumbed through the rest of the book and skimmed here and there to see if I wanted to hang in there, and I saw more and more new POV characters. TOO MANY!
Too many POV characters and the story moved forward at a crawl. You barely get a feel for a character before the POV switches to a new one. The writing is okay, functional though clumsy at times. The world building confused me rather than enthralled me, which is too bad because it has some creative ideas. Maybe because the reader is thrown into a new world before we even get a strong grounding in the first one.
I want to like this book. There's a lot going on. I love the diverse set of characters (YES!) and basic world building concepts. The actual story telling just didn't grab me. Before giving up, I thumbed through the rest of the book and skimmed here and there to see if I wanted to hang in there, and I saw more and more new POV characters. TOO MANY!