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A review by sumayyaha
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
2.0
2 Stars
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I forgot how my reviews go.
But yes, I give this a flat-out two stars because honestly I'm just confused about where this novel left off. I felt little enjoyment throughout the book, besides the beginning when I found out the crow threw out expletives like a star batter, which was childish I must admit. The rest of the book was spent with me wondering, "Where is this going?" I just can't understand why the author needed 308 pages with a third of them only about a crow and bloodhound prancing around town on a horrific sightseeing trip. Maybe the build-up was necessary for the character's development by the end. Maybe I watched them fight a bunch of things just to meet a new hope at the end for... I don't know, it wasn't the least bit exciting nor do I plan to explore that new hope in the next book. Frankly, this book felt repetitive. On and on the author went about the scenery and the beautiful, magical, magnificent, unexplainable "Aura" and did I mention magical because she said that at least 7x?
But here are some things I did enjoy. The author's plethora of vocabulary that perfectly fit the descriptions of scenery and creative way of describing characters that appeared for only a few pages yet painted an exact picture in your mind was really well done. Had she written a book from a human perspective, perhaps even a fantasy, i think she would've done it well. And though my opinions are less popular, I really liked the book for a at least fifty pages but was let down for the rest of it.
____________________________________
I forgot how my reviews go.
But yes, I give this a flat-out two stars because honestly I'm just confused about where this novel left off. I felt little enjoyment throughout the book, besides the beginning when I found out the crow threw out expletives like a star batter, which was childish I must admit. The rest of the book was spent with me wondering, "Where is this going?" I just can't understand why the author needed 308 pages with a third of them only about a crow and bloodhound prancing around town on a horrific sightseeing trip. Maybe the build-up was necessary for the character's development by the end. Maybe I watched them fight a bunch of things just to meet a new hope at the end for... I don't know, it wasn't the least bit exciting nor do I plan to explore that new hope in the next book. Frankly, this book felt repetitive. On and on the author went about the scenery and the beautiful, magical, magnificent, unexplainable "Aura" and did I mention magical because she said that at least 7x?
But here are some things I did enjoy. The author's plethora of vocabulary that perfectly fit the descriptions of scenery and creative way of describing characters that appeared for only a few pages yet painted an exact picture in your mind was really well done. Had she written a book from a human perspective, perhaps even a fantasy, i think she would've done it well. And though my opinions are less popular, I really liked the book for a at least fifty pages but was let down for the rest of it.