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A review by viivacious
The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.0
It is so intentionally vague. Like it was trying for interesting and mysterious but it ended up being annoying instead.
It's hard to engage emotionally with the writing because it feels like we don't really know the characters. Violet is always on the move yet it still feels like nothing is happening. The world feels barely built, Violet doesn't enter this world of x and y described until 40% in, and even then it's mostly vaguely describing her going places. Even if what happens was relevant, the writing is so vague it makes it feel completely irrelevant and like a waste of time.
It gets better when the main characters interact or are in conflict with each other, but they are barely near each other until 80% into the book, and it improves after that point.
The way the story progresses feels like instead of finding out things with Violet, when we reach a certain percentage we get deemed worthy to unlock a bit of the backstory. And most of the time its something most characters already knew but was kept vague from us.
Sometimes it feels there was so much going on that nothing had time to develop properly so everything was half assed instead.
Aleksander and Violet had so little on page time together before 80% that we just get told there are feelings in narration and see almost none of it.
It was a bit derivative. And for all this talk of traveling to other worlds we never really get to see any of them. Some character vaguely travel them at the end but we don't see any of it, which is a shame.
Also, there is a lot of children being harmed here, but as everything, it's done vaguely. If still, if a problem proceed with caution.
Lots of children and babies being stolen to be used as sacrifices and Aleksander being raised abusively .
It's hard to engage emotionally with the writing because it feels like we don't really know the characters. Violet is always on the move yet it still feels like nothing is happening. The world feels barely built, Violet doesn't enter this world of x and y described until 40% in, and even then it's mostly vaguely describing her going places. Even if what happens was relevant, the writing is so vague it makes it feel completely irrelevant and like a waste of time.
It gets better when the main characters interact or are in conflict with each other, but they are barely near each other until 80% into the book, and it improves after that point.
The way the story progresses feels like instead of finding out things with Violet, when we reach a certain percentage we get deemed worthy to unlock a bit of the backstory. And most of the time its something most characters already knew but was kept vague from us.
Sometimes it feels there was so much going on that nothing had time to develop properly so everything was half assed instead.
Aleksander and Violet had so little on page time together before 80% that we just get told there are feelings in narration and see almost none of it.
It was a bit derivative. And for all this talk of traveling to other worlds we never really get to see any of them. Some character vaguely travel them at the end but we don't see any of it, which is a shame.
Also, there is a lot of children being harmed here, but as everything, it's done vaguely. If still, if a problem proceed with caution.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse and Blood
Minor: Child death and Abandonment