elle_lovely 's review for:

Lore by Alexandra Bracken

---

I have no idea how to rate this book because on the one hand its super dense and took me 5 months to get through. The way that it's written is so convoluted that it's not even enjoyable. I felt that it really should have dropped the YA fiction approach and gone full on into the details of the very complex emotional topics it approached. Instead, what you get is 300 pages of edging before anything remotely captivating happens. On the other hand, the characters were twisted but really enjoyable and the end made it worth the trouble so I guess? If you like New York and Mythology it's probably for you. I especially enjoyed the quotes "Power does not transform you [...] it only reveals you" and "But you were like this invisible force to me, even then. You were a safe place to hide my hopes." So cute.