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A review by clairetrellahill
A Multitude of Dreams by Mara Rutherford
slow-paced
A MULTITUDE OF DREAMS is based on Poe’s Masque of the Red Death and plagues. A fantasy country is hit by a mysterious plague and the king’s family and many nobles shut themselves up in a country estate and leave the rest of the country to fend for itself for four years as people fight and die. The author also used her Jewish heritage as inspiration for this book—the main character Seraphina is not the princess everyone believes but a Jew stolen to replace the princess who died early on in the plague.
This book has a lot of good ideas going for it, and I did care about the characters and their struggles, but the pacing left a lot to be desired for me. Seraphina does not meet Nico, the gravedigger love interest, until around 40% in. The concerns that the novel starts with also take a turn and become about different things ultimately.
I really did love the author’s previous book The Poison Season and I will definitely check out future books by this author, but I don’t think this particular book was for me.
Thanks to the publisher and netgalley got this arc. This is my honest review.
This book has a lot of good ideas going for it, and I did care about the characters and their struggles, but the pacing left a lot to be desired for me. Seraphina does not meet Nico, the gravedigger love interest, until around 40% in. The concerns that the novel starts with also take a turn and become about different things ultimately.
I really did love the author’s previous book The Poison Season and I will definitely check out future books by this author, but I don’t think this particular book was for me.
Thanks to the publisher and netgalley got this arc. This is my honest review.