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eecee 's review for:
Midwinterblood
by Marcus Sedgwick
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Beautifully written but ultimately disappointing. Still, three stars for being engaging and beautiful.
While this was easy to get through and definitely held my attention, overall it felt like the bones of a story - just the concept without being fleshed out fully, which prevented it from having the profundity that it felt like the author expected it to convey.
The travelling back in time to explain things was a cute quirk but didn't add much to the story since there wasn't much of a reveal or an unwrapping of layers of meaning each time, it was just a different story with some repeated motifs.
Because the characters changed every time and we hardly got to know them, and they seemed to carry very little in between incarnations, it was hard to care about them. They didn't develop or grow through their many lives.
I couldn't even care about them dying at the end, it was just irritating that after centuries of trying and failing to be together, they had such a pointless and miserable end. If the whole idea was that a few hours of happiness were worth centuries of being torn apart from each other, this possibly needed to come across much more strongly.
While this was easy to get through and definitely held my attention, overall it felt like the bones of a story - just the concept without being fleshed out fully, which prevented it from having the profundity that it felt like the author expected it to convey.
The travelling back in time to explain things was a cute quirk but didn't add much to the story since there wasn't much of a reveal or an unwrapping of layers of meaning each time, it was just a different story with some repeated motifs.
Because the characters changed every time and we hardly got to know them, and they seemed to carry very little in between incarnations, it was hard to care about them. They didn't develop or grow through their many lives.