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victoriabooklover 's review for:
Prince of the Sorrows
by Kellen Graves
*sigh*
This brings me back to all those Charlie Bowater covers: pretty, but conceals the not so great content within.
I am a bit upset because I saw a crap ton of good reviews for this one, and of course, ITS GAY. I should absolutely be swooning right now and I’m NOT. I’m definitely not.
This book, to put it simply, was full of both great elements and some not so great elements. All of which were not executed well at all.
There were plenty of descriptions—a lot of descriptions pertaining to the scenery when it wasn’t needed—and they lasted for literal PAGES. Instead of letting us get to know Saffron as the protagonist, we were more concerned with what the world LOOKED like around him, and it was definitely off-putting. It would have been much much better if we had spent that time getting to know the Saffron, who I still don’t actually know by the end of this story.
Cylvan? Idk, I really don’t. He existed. That’s all I can tell you at this point. I didn’t care about him at all, unfortunately. He was the prince that was salty about the incident that occurred in the beginning, but beyond that? Not much development, and that sucks because he came off as someone interesting to start.
Their relationship did NOT develop very well. I was uninterested enough that I made Megan summarize the last bit of the book for me because I just didn’t enjoy what I was reading. It started off promising and quickly plummeted. Instead of receiving a healthy amount of dialogue between Saffron and Cylvan, we got even more scenery and on occasion Saffrons feelings. We went like 10 pages in the middle of the book without ANY dialogue, just to give you an idea of how much it was lacking in that first half. At the crucial moment when they are supposed to interact, their interactions were instead summarized. Bummer.
Also the plot was NOT clear. Not even close, not until the end-end, and even THEN it’s still not clear. I really wish this author would have taken the time to receive more feedback because I didn’t really have an easy time following the overall plot, romance, or character development.
*spoilers up ahead*
So….there’s this…scene (thank you Megan for summarizing it for me) where Saffron HAUNTS the school by dressing up as a ghost covered in blood (Rowan berries) to get them to stop a wolf…….i didn’t….like that much. He haunts the school to take care of the enemy??? *exists room angrily* I found that to be a bit frustrating.
So yeah, unfortunately no….I wouldn’t recommend this book myself.
This brings me back to all those Charlie Bowater covers: pretty, but conceals the not so great content within.
I am a bit upset because I saw a crap ton of good reviews for this one, and of course, ITS GAY. I should absolutely be swooning right now and I’m NOT. I’m definitely not.
This book, to put it simply, was full of both great elements and some not so great elements. All of which were not executed well at all.
There were plenty of descriptions—a lot of descriptions pertaining to the scenery when it wasn’t needed—and they lasted for literal PAGES. Instead of letting us get to know Saffron as the protagonist, we were more concerned with what the world LOOKED like around him, and it was definitely off-putting. It would have been much much better if we had spent that time getting to know the Saffron, who I still don’t actually know by the end of this story.
Cylvan? Idk, I really don’t. He existed. That’s all I can tell you at this point. I didn’t care about him at all, unfortunately. He was the prince that was salty about the incident that occurred in the beginning, but beyond that? Not much development, and that sucks because he came off as someone interesting to start.
Their relationship did NOT develop very well. I was uninterested enough that I made Megan summarize the last bit of the book for me because I just didn’t enjoy what I was reading. It started off promising and quickly plummeted. Instead of receiving a healthy amount of dialogue between Saffron and Cylvan, we got even more scenery and on occasion Saffrons feelings. We went like 10 pages in the middle of the book without ANY dialogue, just to give you an idea of how much it was lacking in that first half. At the crucial moment when they are supposed to interact, their interactions were instead summarized. Bummer.
Also the plot was NOT clear. Not even close, not until the end-end, and even THEN it’s still not clear. I really wish this author would have taken the time to receive more feedback because I didn’t really have an easy time following the overall plot, romance, or character development.
*spoilers up ahead*
So….there’s this…scene (thank you Megan for summarizing it for me) where Saffron HAUNTS the school by dressing up as a ghost covered in blood (Rowan berries) to get them to stop a wolf…….i didn’t….like that much. He haunts the school to take care of the enemy??? *exists room angrily* I found that to be a bit frustrating.
So yeah, unfortunately no….I wouldn’t recommend this book myself.