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A review by juliriganti
Whisperwood by Alex Woodroe
3.0
Thank you Netgalley and the author for the opportunity to read this book!
I found it really hard to get into this book and I thought about dropping it a few times.
The first pages were AMAZING but then I got to 15% and I was not invested in the story and didn't find Anna's storytelling interesting or passionate enough to care. I'm very happy I kept going though, because this was very creepy and dark and just what I hoped it would be. The horror elements were good, and the world-building is great, Whisperwood was a very interesting place from the first few words, but I couldn't understand why Anna wanted to fit in that place when everyone is so unfriendly.
The thing I loved the most about the book was the descriptions of creatures. At first, it felt a little boring a dense but once I got into the story it was just amazing to read. Once I finished the book I fell down a rabbit hole of stories. The thing I liked the least was the amount of dialogue. Learning everything about the characters and the world through dialogue got annoying very fast and maybe that's a me thing and other people don't find it that way, but it made it very hard to keep going.
I was surprised when I saw the book is only a bit more than 300 pages long because it felt much much longer than that. The scary parts are actually scary and I was very happy about that, but in the first 75% of the book there aren't many of those. The last 25% though, that was VERY good and I loved it. A great ending.
This is a very good debut novel by a writer with a lot of potential, and I'm really excited about what comes next for Alex Woodroe.
I found it really hard to get into this book and I thought about dropping it a few times.
The first pages were AMAZING but then I got to 15% and I was not invested in the story and didn't find Anna's storytelling interesting or passionate enough to care. I'm very happy I kept going though, because this was very creepy and dark and just what I hoped it would be. The horror elements were good, and the world-building is great, Whisperwood was a very interesting place from the first few words, but I couldn't understand why Anna wanted to fit in that place when everyone is so unfriendly.
The thing I loved the most about the book was the descriptions of creatures. At first, it felt a little boring a dense but once I got into the story it was just amazing to read. Once I finished the book I fell down a rabbit hole of stories. The thing I liked the least was the amount of dialogue. Learning everything about the characters and the world through dialogue got annoying very fast and maybe that's a me thing and other people don't find it that way, but it made it very hard to keep going.
I was surprised when I saw the book is only a bit more than 300 pages long because it felt much much longer than that. The scary parts are actually scary and I was very happy about that, but in the first 75% of the book there aren't many of those. The last 25% though, that was VERY good and I loved it. A great ending.
This is a very good debut novel by a writer with a lot of potential, and I'm really excited about what comes next for Alex Woodroe.