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A review by papalbina
Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
1.0
Ok, it is a f******* trilogy and one quite bad. This first book was one predictable event after another, . But first being the Gate, being the Angel, the One, finding out who are the keys and who was guarding the list... Please!! I was bored to death. I forced myself to finish it quickly to begin with another book that urges me more, but in other moment it would have taken me weeks to finish such a boredom.
There are two mayor problems in the book: one, the main character is not appealing at all. I couldn't see her as the heroine, although she is a Mary Sue in big letters, and I couldn't connect with her. She left me completely cold. I felt more close to the bad sister than to her.
The second problem is how the story is told. First person is tricky and I think it was not the correct decision for this kind of story. It is not fluid and stops in completely unneccesary details (descriptions, thoughts), boring the reader. And sometimes I have the impression I was reading a movie, not a script, a movie. When something, say a room, is shown in a movie, it is for a reason who spoils a bit the surprise the room's role itself. Well, in the book it happens exactly the same again and again and again, for example how they happen to find the information. In the moment Sonia tells her birthday is on the first I knew that Louisa's was on the same day and that they were the keys about 50 pages before the one telling the story knows it, hello!?
It isn't a good book and I don't have any intention of getting the rest of the books when they're out. I will try to get rid of trilogies for some time...
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except perhaps for Henry's death towards the endThere are two mayor problems in the book: one, the main character is not appealing at all. I couldn't see her as the heroine, although she is a Mary Sue in big letters, and I couldn't connect with her. She left me completely cold. I felt more close to the bad sister than to her.
The second problem is how the story is told. First person is tricky and I think it was not the correct decision for this kind of story. It is not fluid and stops in completely unneccesary details (descriptions, thoughts), boring the reader. And sometimes I have the impression I was reading a movie, not a script, a movie. When something, say a room, is shown in a movie, it is for a reason who spoils a bit the surprise the room's role itself. Well, in the book it happens exactly the same again and again and again, for example how they happen to find the information. In the moment Sonia tells her birthday is on the first I knew that Louisa's was on the same day and that they were the keys about 50 pages before the one telling the story knows it, hello!?
It isn't a good book and I don't have any intention of getting the rest of the books when they're out. I will try to get rid of trilogies for some time...