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A review by jordanramirezpuckett
The Memory Trees by Kali Wallace
2.0
The pacing on this book is incredibly slow. I fell asleep in the middle of the day while reading this more than once. At the outset our protagonist, Sorrow, doesn’t remember the first eight years of her life when she lived in Vermont with her mother. She doesn’t even remember her sisters funeral or what happened to her mother that she had to move to Florida with her father. This seems like an intriguing premise, the promise of a mystery that will be solved by the end of the book.
But the author spends way too much time in the past, with characters or events that don’t relate to the central plot and I couldn’t bring myself to care. Also for all the talk of witchcraft in the book, there is hardly any magic and this felt like an expectation that the author set that was disappointingly never met. If this book had been trimmed to around 300 pages, I might have enjoyed it, but as is I can’t recommend it unless you need a book to put you to sleep.
But the author spends way too much time in the past, with characters or events that don’t relate to the central plot and I couldn’t bring myself to care. Also for all the talk of witchcraft in the book, there is hardly any magic and this felt like an expectation that the author set that was disappointingly never met. If this book had been trimmed to around 300 pages, I might have enjoyed it, but as is I can’t recommend it unless you need a book to put you to sleep.