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A review by lanidon
House of Blight by Maxym M. Martineau
3.0
The world of this is genuinely so cool and the writing style so captivating that it hurts me to admit the overall book is just incredibly mid. The main issue is that the mc is simply too stupid to exist in this story. She's naive, incurious, overly trusting, easily distracted, and uninquisitive.
Every breakthrough and reveal of the story has to be forced into her hands by another character, begging her to pay attention. She refuses to see what's right in front of her because she'd rather live in her hopeful little daydreams. I swear you could spit in her face and then give her a lollipop and she'd skip off into the sunset like nothing had ever happened.
Your brothers, your only remaining family, are lying in coffins slowly dying and you spend most of your days thinking about romance and sex and friendship and material gains?!?!
It never feels like she is truly training and studying and improving her skills; which is proven when the solution stumbles into her lap. She spends the book lollygagging and flirting and then is pissed when a townsperson breaks her little fantasy by daring to ask about her brothers. She claims to care so much she sleeps on the floor beside their coffins nightly and then she wastes her days doing nothing to help them
It's astounding how one character can fail a story so hard. I wish this book were about her aunt. I wish it were from the perspective of a family member or attendant trying to signal something to this outsider. I even wish it were from the perspective of her little bug shock collar that she loves so strangely. Everyone else is more engaging and more dedicated than the main character and she sucks the potential out of a pretty stellar concept
Every breakthrough and reveal of the story has to be forced into her hands by another character, begging her to pay attention. She refuses to see what's right in front of her because she'd rather live in her hopeful little daydreams. I swear you could spit in her face and then give her a lollipop and she'd skip off into the sunset like nothing had ever happened.
Your brothers, your only remaining family, are lying in coffins slowly dying and you spend most of your days thinking about romance and sex and friendship and material gains?!?!
It never feels like she is truly training and studying and improving her skills; which is proven when the solution stumbles into her lap. She spends the book lollygagging and flirting and then is pissed when a townsperson breaks her little fantasy by daring to ask about her brothers. She claims to care so much she sleeps on the floor beside their coffins nightly and then she wastes her days doing nothing to help them
It's astounding how one character can fail a story so hard. I wish this book were about her aunt. I wish it were from the perspective of a family member or attendant trying to signal something to this outsider. I even wish it were from the perspective of her little bug shock collar that she loves so strangely. Everyone else is more engaging and more dedicated than the main character and she sucks the potential out of a pretty stellar concept