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A review by liacooper
The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde
2.0
I read a short story by Fran Wilde earlier this year (part of the Infinity's End collection) and absolutely lvoed it (easily top5 from that collection) so i wanted to try another thing by her. The Jewel and her Lapidary unfortunately did not live up to my hopes.
part of my rating is totally subjective in that there were a bunch of plot choices/character choices i did not care for and that just brought down the reading experience for me. i especially disliked the ending. it reinforced this uncomfortable slavery aspect present in the rest of the novel. (dont want to say more for spoilers sake).
furthermore, i think there was an awful lot of repetition for such a small book, both plotwise and dialogue wise. i listened to this on audiobook and im not sure if it was a fault with the audiobook editing or simply how the book was written but there would be these repeated phrases every couple of pages. at first i thought maybe these were scene breaks where the last line from the previous scene was being repeated as the first line of the next scene (terrible on its own) but some of the repeated phrases were fragments, not even sentences so by the end i had discarded my theory and was just confused. either way they didnt work, whether as a fault of the writing or the audiobook editing.
just a big miss. i will try something else from Fran Wilde though because i still really love that short story by her that i read and i want to find a longer work to love as much.
part of my rating is totally subjective in that there were a bunch of plot choices/character choices i did not care for and that just brought down the reading experience for me. i especially disliked the ending. it reinforced this uncomfortable slavery aspect present in the rest of the novel. (dont want to say more for spoilers sake).
furthermore, i think there was an awful lot of repetition for such a small book, both plotwise and dialogue wise. i listened to this on audiobook and im not sure if it was a fault with the audiobook editing or simply how the book was written but there would be these repeated phrases every couple of pages. at first i thought maybe these were scene breaks where the last line from the previous scene was being repeated as the first line of the next scene (terrible on its own) but some of the repeated phrases were fragments, not even sentences so by the end i had discarded my theory and was just confused. either way they didnt work, whether as a fault of the writing or the audiobook editing.
just a big miss. i will try something else from Fran Wilde though because i still really love that short story by her that i read and i want to find a longer work to love as much.