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A review by siglerbooknook
Forestfall by Lyndall Clipstone
Did not finish book. Stopped at 52%.
There were several things I didn't like about this book.
Starting with the most technical, I really didn't like the writing style. There are so many partial sentences the book felt choppy, like the author wasn't sure how to finish one thought and start the next. Maybe this was supposed to make it feel more tense, but it was more confusing than anything.
There are several places where the author starts describing a scene or a movement by a character, but the description is vague and when the next movement would happen it would clash hard against how I had pictures the last bit of information.
The author also relies very heavily on miscommunication, and often no communication at all, there are pages and pages of dialogue and I know no more at page 200 about what's going on than I did at page 1.
The love triangle, in my opinion, is poorly written. This doesn't feel like she can't decide, or even like an open relationship, it feels like a toxic relationship filled with cheating which I couldn't enjoy even when I tried. And to top that off, when she would start to write a decent romance scene that could have at least broken up the tension, there was so much anger and the internal monologue was so jumbled that it was more confusing than enjoyable.
The descriptive words used were so repetitive the book became boring. By oage 200 I should know more than that the characters are all angry, desperate, and never think. They have learned absolutely nothing from book one. There is more to a powerful female character than being angry and demanding all the time.
Violeta is an increasingly unlikeable character. All through book 1 she makes choice after choice to protect her loved ones, refuses to work with them, talk to them, or slow down and think, and gets herself into this sticky situation. For 200 pages of book 2 she has done nothing but whine, complain, blame the Lord Under, and throw a fit when he says no. Then for no explained reason at all, suddenly she wants him, starts playing with his emotions, and using him, all the while yelling at him for using her.
Lastly, even the side characters are no longer enjoyable for me. It's like the author forgot how she was writing them all, and gave them all new personalities hinging on the worst of their original traits.
At least at this point in the book, the story is reading like a fanfiction by someone who was crushing on Thranduil in the hobbit movie, and wanted the Darkling and Alina to end up together, but wanted to add extra tropes to be unique. Instead if succeeding it feels confusing and slow.
With the above mix of technical writing issues and personal dislike for the tropes used, I can't get into the book enough to finish it even though I hate DNFing
Starting with the most technical, I really didn't like the writing style. There are so many partial sentences the book felt choppy, like the author wasn't sure how to finish one thought and start the next. Maybe this was supposed to make it feel more tense, but it was more confusing than anything.
There are several places where the author starts describing a scene or a movement by a character, but the description is vague and when the next movement would happen it would clash hard against how I had pictures the last bit of information.
The author also relies very heavily on miscommunication, and often no communication at all, there are pages and pages of dialogue and I know no more at page 200 about what's going on than I did at page 1.
The love triangle, in my opinion, is poorly written. This doesn't feel like she can't decide, or even like an open relationship, it feels like a toxic relationship filled with cheating which I couldn't enjoy even when I tried. And to top that off, when she would start to write a decent romance scene that could have at least broken up the tension, there was so much anger and the internal monologue was so jumbled that it was more confusing than enjoyable.
The descriptive words used were so repetitive the book became boring. By oage 200 I should know more than that the characters are all angry, desperate, and never think. They have learned absolutely nothing from book one. There is more to a powerful female character than being angry and demanding all the time.
Violeta is an increasingly unlikeable character. All through book 1 she makes choice after choice to protect her loved ones, refuses to work with them, talk to them, or slow down and think, and gets herself into this sticky situation. For 200 pages of book 2 she has done nothing but whine, complain, blame the Lord Under, and throw a fit when he says no. Then for no explained reason at all, suddenly she wants him, starts playing with his emotions, and using him, all the while yelling at him for using her.
Lastly, even the side characters are no longer enjoyable for me. It's like the author forgot how she was writing them all, and gave them all new personalities hinging on the worst of their original traits.
At least at this point in the book, the story is reading like a fanfiction by someone who was crushing on Thranduil in the hobbit movie, and wanted the Darkling and Alina to end up together, but wanted to add extra tropes to be unique. Instead if succeeding it feels confusing and slow.
With the above mix of technical writing issues and personal dislike for the tropes used, I can't get into the book enough to finish it even though I hate DNFing