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A review by annaki_laila
Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
Did not finish book.
[DNF] This is the second time I’ve tried to read this book. The first time, I think I only got about 30 pages in. This time I got to page 86, but I just... can’t. This book had so much potential but it’s just really not working out. There’s so little world-building that I feel as though the story is taking place in a void. There’s character and place names being thrown around in the dialogue, but I have no idea who/where/what they are, and what the significance is.
From the get-go there was little setup with the whole Affinities thing, which was so so disappointing because magic should be exciting and interesting! It’s a fantasy novel! Instead, we just know that one of the main characters has a fire power thing, and there are six gods or spirits or something, which each have a type of power. We are told that some people don’t mind magic users and others hate them, but we don’t know why. I realise that of course these questions could be answered later in the story, but the problem is that the reason I have these questions in the first place isn’t out of intrigue, it’s because there is frustratingly little information to begin with.
Ok, rant over. All in all this was a real disappointment. The plot doesn’t spark any interest, I don’t care about the characters, and the magic is ridiculously under-explained and almost irrelevant.
From the get-go there was little setup with the whole Affinities thing, which was so so disappointing because magic should be exciting and interesting! It’s a fantasy novel! Instead, we just know that one of the main characters has a fire power thing, and there are six gods or spirits or something, which each have a type of power. We are told that some people don’t mind magic users and others hate them, but we don’t know why. I realise that of course these questions could be answered later in the story, but the problem is that the reason I have these questions in the first place isn’t out of intrigue, it’s because there is frustratingly little information to begin with.
Ok, rant over. All in all this was a real disappointment. The plot doesn’t spark any interest, I don’t care about the characters, and the magic is ridiculously under-explained and almost irrelevant.