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A review by shandyt
Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
3.0
Uncomplicated and uninspired, despite its unusual premise and origin. I found it just interesting enough to continue on with the series, in the hopes that things get better over time.
Among the things I disliked:
-Repetition of words, occasionally 3+ times within one or two sentences.
-Lots of characters talking about how afraid they are, or opening their mouths to scream.
-Strange word choices, redundant descriptors, and extraneous phrases, like, "a sort of [thing]" and "she felt the sensation of her arm being wrenched back", when "a [thing]" or "her arm was wrenched back" would suffice.
-Several characters spend a significant portion of the book struggling with either fevers or foot injuries, to the point of ridiculousness. I suspect this may have been to make Tavi's furylessness seem like less of a handicap by comparison.
-Amara and Bernard.
Because so little about the premise or the story stands out, the flaws in the prose drag it down from "pretty good" to "tolerable." I give it 2.5 stars, rounded up because I'm feeling generous.
Among the things I disliked:
-Repetition of words, occasionally 3+ times within one or two sentences.
-Lots of characters talking about how afraid they are, or opening their mouths to scream.
-Strange word choices, redundant descriptors, and extraneous phrases, like, "a sort of [thing]" and "she felt the sensation of her arm being wrenched back", when "a [thing]" or "her arm was wrenched back" would suffice.
-Several characters spend a significant portion of the book struggling with either fevers or foot injuries, to the point of ridiculousness. I suspect this may have been to make Tavi's furylessness seem like less of a handicap by comparison.
-Amara and Bernard
Spoiler
fall for each other far too quickly, especially considering Bernard's previous marriage, and at the time of their first kiss, they'd been at each other's throats only hours before.Because so little about the premise or the story stands out, the flaws in the prose drag it down from "pretty good" to "tolerable." I give it 2.5 stars, rounded up because I'm feeling generous.