rizbee 's review for:

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

2.75

mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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really wanted to like this, but it was not for me. maggie has great writing but i was so uninterested in the story. everything was so slow and i didn’t like any of the characters. i felt like nothing happened until the last 10% and even that wasn’t too exciting. i really didn’t like the romance (either options); it just seemed so random to me. i was mostly interested in the magic and there wasn’t even that much of it. it feels evil to rate it like this with my love of maggie’s other books but i just keep thinking how i should have dnfed.