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A review by soulakosti
Lore by Alexandra Bracken
3.0
“I was born knowing three things — how to breathe, how to dream, and how to love you.”
*Sigh* I had such high expectations for this one; Greek mythology with a modern twist, author of Greek decent, and amazing cover! BUT..I just didn’t connect with it the way I hoped I would.
It took me foreveeeer to actually finish this as I would pick it up and after a couple of chapters put it back down. I actually preordered Lore so I’ve been struggling to read it since the time it was published. I just really wanted to finish it in hopes that it’d get better towards the end.
Bracken’s world was at times confusing and I felt like most of the characters were pretty shallow, lacking depth and complexity. I actually liked how badass Lore was and loved her childhood love with Castor. I felt like Bracken wanted to draw as many parallels as possible between Lore and Athena so her character ended up not growing as I hoped she would.
A lot of the characters felt purposeless and unimportant. But can we actually get a book about Miles and Van? Like I’d definitely read that instead!
*Sigh* I had such high expectations for this one; Greek mythology with a modern twist, author of Greek decent, and amazing cover! BUT..I just didn’t connect with it the way I hoped I would.
It took me foreveeeer to actually finish this as I would pick it up and after a couple of chapters put it back down. I actually preordered Lore so I’ve been struggling to read it since the time it was published. I just really wanted to finish it in hopes that it’d get better towards the end.
Bracken’s world was at times confusing and I felt like most of the characters were pretty shallow, lacking depth and complexity. I actually liked how badass Lore was and loved her childhood love with Castor. I felt like Bracken wanted to draw as many parallels as possible between Lore and Athena so her character ended up not growing as I hoped she would.
A lot of the characters felt purposeless and unimportant. But can we actually get a book about Miles and Van? Like I’d definitely read that instead!