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kitvaria_sarene 's review for:
Ten Thousand Stitches
by Olivia Atwater
While Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater was a fun and easy story with some dark bits, it didn't grab me just as well as Half a Soul or Small Miracles did.
Maybe it's because this book is more about pursuing romance / marriage, instead of finding it kinda accidentally along the roadside, and me not being a romance fan. Maybe it was the different tone, but I found it less charming and more ... I don't even know how to phrase it.
Half a Soul has the horrible treatment in workhouses, dying kids and all, it made you think about those things and reflect on the past, it did smoothly got into the story as well though.
In this book we get the horrible way servants were treated and worked to death, but it somehow felt a bit more telling than showing in a way? Don't get me wrong, I loved seeing the perspective from the other side of the pretty regency houses. So it wasn't the inclusion of the topic at all, rather the way it written? Or as I said just the more romancy side of the story that didn't mash as well with it. So it might be purely my personal taste than anything wrong with the book.
Now this Al sounds so much more negative than I meant it to be. It is still a fun book with an adorably weird Fae and loveable side characters. I don't in any way regret reading it, and still happily give it four out of five stars! It's just not the same "10 stars aren't even enough" level of the two previous books I read by the author.
Maybe it's because this book is more about pursuing romance / marriage, instead of finding it kinda accidentally along the roadside, and me not being a romance fan. Maybe it was the different tone, but I found it less charming and more ... I don't even know how to phrase it.
Half a Soul has the horrible treatment in workhouses, dying kids and all, it made you think about those things and reflect on the past, it did smoothly got into the story as well though.
In this book we get the horrible way servants were treated and worked to death, but it somehow felt a bit more telling than showing in a way? Don't get me wrong, I loved seeing the perspective from the other side of the pretty regency houses. So it wasn't the inclusion of the topic at all, rather the way it written? Or as I said just the more romancy side of the story that didn't mash as well with it. So it might be purely my personal taste than anything wrong with the book.
Now this Al sounds so much more negative than I meant it to be. It is still a fun book with an adorably weird Fae and loveable side characters. I don't in any way regret reading it, and still happily give it four out of five stars! It's just not the same "10 stars aren't even enough" level of the two previous books I read by the author.