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A review by wearyreader
Phoenix Flame by Sara Holland
3.0
Love the world and characters but still disappointed.
The book is primarily built upon reveal to reveal to reveal without using any pacing to build tension. In between that is a bunch of characters constantly interrupting Maddie talking to someone else to talk to her but ultimately gets cut off to talk to someone else.
We are so much in Maddie’s thoughts being told everything instead of being shown anything. There’s also the supporting characters being oddly inconsistent. They won’t know something in one chapter and then in a few pages later, they say something that shows complete knowledge. And also the opposite where a character knows something the ENTIRE book and suddenly in the last chapter or so they forget and it becomes a reveal?…
All in all, the book is too short. Maddie has none of the actual confidence or lessons learned from the first. It almost feels like this book was written first. And each reveal or twist just comes off as if I’ve been lied to constantly.
Even with that all said, I’d be more than happy to read anything else in this universe.
The book is primarily built upon reveal to reveal to reveal without using any pacing to build tension. In between that is a bunch of characters constantly interrupting Maddie talking to someone else to talk to her but ultimately gets cut off to talk to someone else.
We are so much in Maddie’s thoughts being told everything instead of being shown anything. There’s also the supporting characters being oddly inconsistent. They won’t know something in one chapter and then in a few pages later, they say something that shows complete knowledge. And also the opposite where a character knows something the ENTIRE book and suddenly in the last chapter or so they forget and it becomes a reveal?…
All in all, the book is too short. Maddie has none of the actual confidence or lessons learned from the first. It almost feels like this book was written first. And each reveal or twist just comes off as if I’ve been lied to constantly.
Even with that all said, I’d be more than happy to read anything else in this universe.