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Guardians of Dawn: Zhara
by S. Jae-Jones
I was really into the first chapter of this book - cozy kitchen witch vibes, sweet sibling relationship, a cat, and a possibly evil stepmother! However, it all quickly fell apart for me as soon as the main character stepped out of her house in the next chapter.
The writing quickly took a turn for the worse and it became hard to follow what was going on. I didn’t really understand the worldbuilding and sequence of events that was happening. To make things worse, the writer explained at the start of the book that she made the conscious choice to use non-gendered pronouns “until the characters decide to explicitly gender themselves”. This made for extremely confusing reading especially when there are multiple characters in a scene. Although the writer made this supposed conscious choice, I still noticed in my copy of the book at least one gendered pronoun that was left in before the character decided to tell us that he is a boy. So not only was this a totally unnecessary and confusing choice to make, it was sloppily executed.
On top of all of that, the humor in this book is cringe and juvenile. I never want to read the phrase “Good Looking Giggles” ever again, thank you.
The writing quickly took a turn for the worse and it became hard to follow what was going on. I didn’t really understand the worldbuilding and sequence of events that was happening. To make things worse, the writer explained at the start of the book that she made the conscious choice to use non-gendered pronouns “until the characters decide to explicitly gender themselves”. This made for extremely confusing reading especially when there are multiple characters in a scene. Although the writer made this supposed conscious choice, I still noticed in my copy of the book at least one gendered pronoun that was left in before the character decided to tell us that he is a boy. So not only was this a totally unnecessary and confusing choice to make, it was sloppily executed.
On top of all of that, the humor in this book is cringe and juvenile. I never want to read the phrase “Good Looking Giggles” ever again, thank you.