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A review by kitvaria_sarene
On Borrowed Luck by T.J. Muir
3.0
This one started off ok for me, but I actually lost interest along the way.
The main character is 17, still lives at home, has to learn higher mathematics for school - might go to college later. But it's also a world where people still have stewards, cooks, coaches, boys on the streets. The mix of what feels like the typical historical flavoured fantasy with modern college ideas just didn't work for me. He is totally part of his family, with his mother still telling him to shower, do homework and so on - on the other side he goes missing for months on end, and that does not seem to be a problem, as long as he sends a "I'm fine letter". The whole family relations seem very blasé...
The tone and voice feel like a book for age 12+, but then there's some sex and murder and him learning how to seduce a women from a friendly whore. Once more the mix of adult themes and YA plot/character/prose just didn't do it for me.
It SHOULD have been interesting to see how this boy changes - spoiler about how he changes:
All in all it wasn't bad, but it also didn't blow me away and I have no interest whatsoever in reading the sequel, even though this one ends rather open ended. The world just starts to open up, so I SHOULD be interested, but I just am not. I simply don't care about the main character or his family...
The main character is 17, still lives at home, has to learn higher mathematics for school - might go to college later. But it's also a world where people still have stewards, cooks, coaches, boys on the streets. The mix of what feels like the typical historical flavoured fantasy with modern college ideas just didn't work for me. He is totally part of his family, with his mother still telling him to shower, do homework and so on - on the other side he goes missing for months on end, and that does not seem to be a problem, as long as he sends a "I'm fine letter". The whole family relations seem very blasé...
The tone and voice feel like a book for age 12+, but then there's some sex and murder and him learning how to seduce a women from a friendly whore. Once more the mix of adult themes and YA plot/character/prose just didn't do it for me.
It SHOULD have been interesting to see how this boy changes - spoiler about how he changes:
Spoiler
He goes from small "nerdy" beat up kid to some sort of criminal hand for some sort of nobel man. But instead of thinking about how you can just accidentally end up like that (like getting into a gang and only noticing you're in too deep once it's too late) but I just thought "You can't be that blind..."All in all it wasn't bad, but it also didn't blow me away and I have no interest whatsoever in reading the sequel, even though this one ends rather open ended. The world just starts to open up, so I SHOULD be interested, but I just am not. I simply don't care about the main character or his family...