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A review by marie_22
Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths by R. Raeta
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.75
I can definitely see why people would love this book.
The writing style was great, it drew me in from the first chapter, it was emotional, I liked the main characters and it was an easy read.
I think the reason why I didn’t love it mainly comes down to personal preference.
Now is probably a good time to mention that I don’t really like time jumps in books all that much. And this story starts in 1184 and ends in like 1942. So to pull all of this off, there obviously had to be time jumps, like a lot of time jumps. I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me before starting it, it’s a story about immortality after all, but here we are..
It started out great, I was invested and excited to see where this story was going after Anna was granted immortality and how Khiran was going to play into all of this. However, after a while, the chapters started to become repetitive, the only difference was that she had travelled somewhere else and some years had gone by. Like she just did the same thing (be a midwife/nurse) in every chapter while travelling around the world.
It felt like there was no real plot, just snapshots of Anna’s life strung together because every chapter was also a time jump. Because of that, I never really felt connected to this story or the characters.
Also, because the chapters felt so repetitive, I was bored in the middle there. But I made it to the 75% mark, and at that point things finally happened. I did really enjoy these last 25%, they saved the book for me.
The writing style was great, it drew me in from the first chapter, it was emotional, I liked the main characters and it was an easy read.
I think the reason why I didn’t love it mainly comes down to personal preference.
Now is probably a good time to mention that I don’t really like time jumps in books all that much. And this story starts in 1184 and ends in like 1942. So to pull all of this off, there obviously had to be time jumps, like a lot of time jumps. I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me before starting it, it’s a story about immortality after all, but here we are..
It started out great, I was invested and excited to see where this story was going after Anna was granted immortality and how Khiran was going to play into all of this. However, after a while, the chapters started to become repetitive, the only difference was that she had travelled somewhere else and some years had gone by. Like she just did the same thing (be a midwife/nurse) in every chapter while travelling around the world.
It felt like there was no real plot, just snapshots of Anna’s life strung together because every chapter was also a time jump. Because of that, I never really felt connected to this story or the characters.
Also, because the chapters felt so repetitive, I was bored in the middle there. But I made it to the 75% mark, and at that point things finally happened. I did really enjoy these last 25%, they saved the book for me.