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A review by confusedmagpie
Mordew by Alex Pheby
2.0
Very minor spoilers ahead
I truly don’t get the hype about this book. The plot literally starts halfway through it, the characters are bland and forgettable, and the author doesn’t want or care to make us privy to their feelings and thoughts when the story is begging him to do so, the exposition is delivered clumsily and in the worst possible ways and moments, and the subjects of poverty and misery are used as a backdrop but never really addressed, as if the author wanted to fetichize poverty (especially when it comes the female characters and prostitution).
If you want a book starring a poor street urchin/kinda orphan with a criminal background that turns out to have a bigger role to play in the world and comes from mysterious origins, ends up using God’s body as a source of power and has a talking dog-companion, go read Mistborn (odd how many parallels there are).
Two stars because some parts were nicely written, and the Interlude from the perspective of a sentient dog was nice.
I truly don’t get the hype about this book. The plot literally starts halfway through it, the characters are bland and forgettable, and the author doesn’t want or care to make us privy to their feelings and thoughts when the story is begging him to do so, the exposition is delivered clumsily and in the worst possible ways and moments, and the subjects of poverty and misery are used as a backdrop but never really addressed, as if the author wanted to fetichize poverty (especially when it comes the female characters and prostitution).
If you want a book starring a poor street urchin/kinda orphan with a criminal background that turns out to have a bigger role to play in the world and comes from mysterious origins, ends up using God’s body as a source of power and has a talking dog-companion, go read Mistborn (odd how many parallels there are).
Two stars because some parts were nicely written, and the Interlude from the perspective of a sentient dog was nice.