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A review by rheah
The Scandalous Letters of V and J by Felicia Davin
Did not finish book. Stopped at 51%.
dnf 51% in
I was worried about the French going in due to some bad reading experiences lately but it's fine, I had no issue with it or the setting.
This book is so long for no reason at all. I was seduced by the premise of an epistolary romance but instead of working with the storytelling tools of the medium the author worked against them. Since they couldn't limit themselves to letters the author added diary entries and just normal scenes. The thing is: more than half the time the author has forgotten that those are diary entries and write them like an actual scenes with word for word dialogue and dialogue tags as well as detailed description of action and movement. It took me out of the story so fast I couldn't be bothered anymore. It add to the length of an already bloated book when we could have had something fascinating in letters exchanged.
Now let's talk about the plot/fantasy plot. I was never at any point hooked by the plot or anything going on. I went in wanting romance and instead I got thirty sideplots I couldn't care about. So there's magic which the characters explain as "it's magic". Okay so why should I be interested in your magic system?
Now I have complained about the length. I am a slow burn lover. There is no real slow burn as the characters do get together quickly. It's just long because of sideplots and their day to day life.
I was worried about the French going in due to some bad reading experiences lately but it's fine, I had no issue with it or the setting.
This book is so long for no reason at all. I was seduced by the premise of an epistolary romance but instead of working with the storytelling tools of the medium the author worked against them. Since they couldn't limit themselves to letters the author added diary entries and just normal scenes. The thing is: more than half the time the author has forgotten that those are diary entries and write them like an actual scenes with word for word dialogue and dialogue tags as well as detailed description of action and movement. It took me out of the story so fast I couldn't be bothered anymore. It add to the length of an already bloated book when we could have had something fascinating in letters exchanged.
Now let's talk about the plot/fantasy plot. I was never at any point hooked by the plot or anything going on. I went in wanting romance and instead I got thirty sideplots I couldn't care about. So there's magic which the characters explain as "it's magic". Okay so why should I be interested in your magic system?
Now I have complained about the length. I am a slow burn lover. There is no real slow burn as the characters do get together quickly. It's just long because of sideplots and their day to day life.