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A review by jxur28
Clawing Free by Josh Roberts
dark
informative
medium-paced
3.0
I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway - thank you to the author and Goodreads.
Now before I start this review I just want to say that writing a book is hard. I know it is and I admire the author for getting his work out there.
I will start with what I liked about it, and that is simply put by saying that it was the subject matter - the storyline. This was a creature feature to the core and I thoroughly enjoyed what the creature turned out to be. I am interested to learning more about this Korean folktale/myth.
What I didn't like about this book is the writing style. There was a lot of repetitive words such as little sister, baby sister, younger sister, big sister - over and over again. It was rare that when one of the sisters were referred to that it just read sister or their names. And there were a lot of extra words within the text that just left me feeling annoyed with. There are also some editing issues -extra words, missing words, etc., that I hope the author can go and fix at some point.
I didn't really believe a lot of Mia's motivations. In the beginning of the book she was a shell of a person, going through the motions and then near the end she was becoming self sacrificing. I just didn't believe the character arch - sorry to the author. I think part of why I didn't believe if was the author didn't build up the relationship strong enough for me. But this is only my opinion and others may have a different view. I also hated the way Lissy treated Niel - who to me was the best character in the story.
There were a couple of other things that didn't work for me, but I don't want to be over critical becuase overall I thought it was a fun read. And as I said in the beginning I know how hard it is to write a book.
So overall a solid 3 stars. If the description speaks to you I say read it. It is fun and quick and you may disagree with me - just look at the other reviews.
Now before I start this review I just want to say that writing a book is hard. I know it is and I admire the author for getting his work out there.
I will start with what I liked about it, and that is simply put by saying that it was the subject matter - the storyline. This was a creature feature to the core and I thoroughly enjoyed what the creature turned out to be. I am interested to learning more about this Korean folktale/myth.
What I didn't like about this book is the writing style. There was a lot of repetitive words such as little sister, baby sister, younger sister, big sister - over and over again. It was rare that when one of the sisters were referred to that it just read sister or their names. And there were a lot of extra words within the text that just left me feeling annoyed with. There are also some editing issues -extra words, missing words, etc., that I hope the author can go and fix at some point.
I didn't really believe a lot of Mia's motivations. In the beginning of the book she was a shell of a person, going through the motions and then near the end she was becoming self sacrificing. I just didn't believe the character arch - sorry to the author. I think part of why I didn't believe if was the author didn't build up the relationship strong enough for me. But this is only my opinion and others may have a different view. I also hated the way Lissy treated Niel - who to me was the best character in the story.
There were a couple of other things that didn't work for me, but I don't want to be over critical becuase overall I thought it was a fun read. And as I said in the beginning I know how hard it is to write a book.
So overall a solid 3 stars. If the description speaks to you I say read it. It is fun and quick and you may disagree with me - just look at the other reviews.