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Unearthed
by Meagan Spooner, Amie Kaufman
*I read this in December and reviewed it then. I read it as an ARC, and as always, this is my honest opinion.
When I found out Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner were writing another series together, I was ecstatic. I adored These Broken Stars.
This one didn’t work for me, mainly because it was incredibly slow at the beginning and didn’t pick up until the last 100 pages or so. I considered not finishing it, because I wasn’t connecting with the story or the characters.
A lot of it is very abstract. Mia’s struggles and motivations are good ones, but because we’re detached from the reality of them, it was hard to keep them in mind as the story progressed. Jules and Mia’s chemistry was a miss for me as well, and I just didn’t ship them at all.
It has wonderful descriptions, and I do see the Lara Croft/Indiana Jones vibe and while it works, it also slows down the story even more, to the point where I skimmed over it just to get to the action.
A lot of the action-90% of it-is running away from things, FYI. Which gets old pretty quickly.
It may very well be a perfectly good story, but I was bored throughout the entire thing. Up until the end. The ending caught me off guard slightly, and pulled my rating up an extra .5 and brought it to 3.5 overall. I will definitely read the next book. Hopefully, I’ll like it better.
When I found out Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner were writing another series together, I was ecstatic. I adored These Broken Stars.
This one didn’t work for me, mainly because it was incredibly slow at the beginning and didn’t pick up until the last 100 pages or so. I considered not finishing it, because I wasn’t connecting with the story or the characters.
A lot of it is very abstract. Mia’s struggles and motivations are good ones, but because we’re detached from the reality of them, it was hard to keep them in mind as the story progressed. Jules and Mia’s chemistry was a miss for me as well, and I just didn’t ship them at all.
It has wonderful descriptions, and I do see the Lara Croft/Indiana Jones vibe and while it works, it also slows down the story even more, to the point where I skimmed over it just to get to the action.
A lot of the action-90% of it-is running away from things, FYI. Which gets old pretty quickly.
It may very well be a perfectly good story, but I was bored throughout the entire thing. Up until the end. The ending caught me off guard slightly, and pulled my rating up an extra .5 and brought it to 3.5 overall. I will definitely read the next book. Hopefully, I’ll like it better.