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proko5 's review for:
Vita Nostra
by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko
Things I loved:
The mystery is truly compelling and it draws you in from the very beginning.
The book is somewhat self aware so it's sort of winking at you as it descends into certain fantasy tropes.
At least in my reading experience, the plot and the world building is unique.
Everything about the book that can be real seems very real (relationships, self-discovery, etc)
Things that took me out of it:
Sometimes, the fantastical elements and concepts in the book were a little too cerebral. That is to say they went over my head.
There was at least one obvious solution to a problem that I figured out many pages before the characters did (so I went over the book's head).
The protagonist keeps making the same mistake over and over, which got a little annoying (but it's also the definition of addiction, which the book admits is her problem).
It probably couldn't be helped, but there are some moments where the translation seems to falter.
Those lists seem even, but let me clarify that I loved this book way more than I didn't. I can't wait for the next book in the (reportedly loosely connected) series to be translated.
The mystery is truly compelling and it draws you in from the very beginning.
The book is somewhat self aware so it's sort of winking at you as it descends into certain fantasy tropes.
At least in my reading experience, the plot and the world building is unique.
Everything about the book that can be real seems very real (relationships, self-discovery, etc)
Things that took me out of it:
Sometimes, the fantastical elements and concepts in the book were a little too cerebral. That is to say they went over my head.
There was at least one obvious solution to a problem that I figured out many pages before the characters did (so I went over the book's head).
The protagonist keeps making the same mistake over and over, which got a little annoying (but it's also the definition of addiction, which the book admits is her problem).
It probably couldn't be helped, but there are some moments where the translation seems to falter.
Those lists seem even, but let me clarify that I loved this book way more than I didn't. I can't wait for the next book in the (reportedly loosely connected) series to be translated.