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A review by tomhankslover
The Miracle Sin by Marcus Hawke
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
3.0
I’m not a giant fantasy genre person but I picked this up because it was recommended to me. I had high hopes, I think the concept really could be something good. I did enjoy the majority of the book but it was just all giant build up for literally nothing. If there’s a second book that comes out I’ll read it just to maybe see if all of the unanswered questions are answered and because I really do like the characters, but in general I feel like I just read a book that still needed to be sent to an editor.
There are so many things I’m confused about. Everytime I felt like mason was actually about to do something he didn’t. I found myself having to reread scenes that were supposed to be big plot points because the scene would be over and little to nothing had happened. Literally in the climax I guess Novak straight up says he doesn’t really have a goal just to get rid of the team. Like he’s not working toward something at all. Mason is just training for the sake of training there never even was a big part where he needed it. When they return to the farm all the vampires are just sleeping so they kill them easily and then Novak just runs into the woods.
I also have an issue with Julie. Mason literally gives up his powers and risks his life for this girl and then whenever she’s a vampire and he kills her it’s a big joke to him. Even if she’s a vampire I feel like he would be very upset having to kill the girl he was about to give up everything for.
There were other smaller plot holes too like who was the mute boy? What was the point of using a strangers finger in the previous bishops blood (Abbot?) like what was the point of him dying even. The witch Sydney is like not even mentioned hardly throughout the book and then all of the sudden Sarah finds her and Mason wants to kill her more than Novak. Like why did Sydney work for the vampires even what’s the story with that.
Overall the book was confusing with nothing even happening to come out of it. I understand the author is setting it up to make it a series but a good series wraps up the loose ends by the end of the book and gives just enough of run on plot to make the reader want a second book. This was too much left open that I don’t even think will be answered if there’s a second.
There are so many things I’m confused about. Everytime I felt like mason was actually about to do something he didn’t. I found myself having to reread scenes that were supposed to be big plot points because the scene would be over and little to nothing had happened. Literally in the climax I guess Novak straight up says he doesn’t really have a goal just to get rid of the team. Like he’s not working toward something at all. Mason is just training for the sake of training there never even was a big part where he needed it. When they return to the farm all the vampires are just sleeping so they kill them easily and then Novak just runs into the woods.
I also have an issue with Julie. Mason literally gives up his powers and risks his life for this girl and then whenever she’s a vampire and he kills her it’s a big joke to him. Even if she’s a vampire I feel like he would be very upset having to kill the girl he was about to give up everything for.
There were other smaller plot holes too like who was the mute boy? What was the point of using a strangers finger in the previous bishops blood (Abbot?) like what was the point of him dying even. The witch Sydney is like not even mentioned hardly throughout the book and then all of the sudden Sarah finds her and Mason wants to kill her more than Novak. Like why did Sydney work for the vampires even what’s the story with that.
Overall the book was confusing with nothing even happening to come out of it. I understand the author is setting it up to make it a series but a good series wraps up the loose ends by the end of the book and gives just enough of run on plot to make the reader want a second book. This was too much left open that I don’t even think will be answered if there’s a second.