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A review by sulu
Live Like Legends by Kate Cornell
1.0
Thank you for the eARC, NetGalley!
Insubstantial. Flat.
This was a real flop for me. The world building was near nonexistent, for the first few chapters particularly, the settings weren't described at all. The characters were all very flat, so I didn't really care what happened in their story. And the writing was quite average, and choppy. This was certainly not an empowering story for the modern feminist, it was more like a Disney fairytale, complete with a prince to save the day. I found the main character dull, vain, and rather pathetic. She spent most of the book whining about her lot, or fawning over the vague outline of a strong silent type love interest. She had an enormously over inflated sense of self, based on inconsequential, insufficient experience, and knowledge. There were inconsistencies with the portrayal of some of the characters, what was being said of them contradicted with the way they acted, a character always described as being reserved, and serious, was often laughing, and smiling. This made it even harder to connect with, and understand the characters. The plot "twist" near the end, I predicted from the moment the relevant characterswere introduced, so also very predictable.
I guess I'm just not the target audience.
Insubstantial. Flat.
This was a real flop for me. The world building was near nonexistent, for the first few chapters particularly, the settings weren't described at all. The characters were all very flat, so I didn't really care what happened in their story. And the writing was quite average, and choppy. This was certainly not an empowering story for the modern feminist, it was more like a Disney fairytale, complete with a prince to save the day. I found the main character dull, vain, and rather pathetic. She spent most of the book whining about her lot, or fawning over the vague outline of a strong silent type love interest. She had an enormously over inflated sense of self, based on inconsequential, insufficient experience, and knowledge. There were inconsistencies with the portrayal of some of the characters, what was being said of them contradicted with the way they acted, a character always described as being reserved, and serious, was often laughing, and smiling. This made it even harder to connect with, and understand the characters. The plot "twist" near the end, I predicted from the moment the relevant characters
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the king, and monsterI guess I'm just not the target audience.