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A review by see_sadie_read
City of Broken Magic by Mirah Bolender
Did not finish book.
DNF 50%
Halfway through the book and I felt the world was still being explained and the plot had yet to develop. I found the characters (all of them) unlikeable and I was frankly bored with the whole darned thing...and confused.
Plus, I was continuously annoyed that the author used words that were almost the same thing to the real world to describe what was supposed to be made up. They lived in 'Orien,' which was very clearly Japan (words like Okane, Kaibutsu, bakemono), so the Orient. They drank a drink called 'Cocoal,' which was a brick brown, fizzy, "dark, froth-covered," sweet drink, typically loved by children and drunk with a straw. Can we say Coca-cola? Either commit to the real-world word or make up something truly original. The half-way, half-assed attempt irked me to no end!
Halfway through the book and I felt the world was still being explained and the plot had yet to develop. I found the characters (all of them) unlikeable and I was frankly bored with the whole darned thing...and confused.
Plus, I was continuously annoyed that the author used words that were almost the same thing to the real world to describe what was supposed to be made up. They lived in 'Orien,' which was very clearly Japan (words like Okane, Kaibutsu, bakemono), so the Orient. They drank a drink called 'Cocoal,' which was a brick brown, fizzy, "dark, froth-covered," sweet drink, typically loved by children and drunk with a straw. Can we say Coca-cola? Either commit to the real-world word or make up something truly original. The half-way, half-assed attempt irked me to no end!