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A review by xeita
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
2.0
Firstly, my positive remark is the beginning part with the Carrot ordeal was awesome and made my skin crawl. Unfortunately, the story continued after.
Premise, awesome. Ending, so unbelievably disappointing. The amount of loose ends makes the story feel like it was written on a whim. The dreamcatcher situation turned out to be nothing and was dragged on for almost the entire story. The stolen wedding ring had no purpose for the plot, even after being found it was like "Oh, ok I have it now"...
The First Nations people served no purpose other than repeating how they have no clue how to help, then dying to scare our main characters.
This relentless, murderous monster who skins and mimics its victims seems to have no mercy. Unless you're Faye who just can't remember she almost had a brother. For some reason, this horrible creature is so interested by this (can't relate) that it spares her for some reason. And once she remembers she almost had a brother, she wants the monster to leave her alone now and ... well ... it just does. Just like that.
I thought it was going to reveal that her unborn brother was tied to this creature somehow, or became part of it somehow... But nope. Just a crazy murderous demon who really wants to make Faye relive something crappy for no reason, because he feels like it. It's like it cares about the whole brother thing, which is entirely out of character. The brother thing came completely out of nowhere. It didn't circle back around to make everything tie together, it was just totally random and so I didn't have any feelings towards it.
She remembers her almost-brother, has an OTT reaction and complete mental breakdown and then the monster dusts himself off like his job is done here. This *monster* cared way more about what Faye was feeling than I did.
A story sprinkled with stupid here and there only to end in a stupid-bomb. I was so excited to read this, too.
Premise, awesome. Ending, so unbelievably disappointing. The amount of loose ends makes the story feel like it was written on a whim. The dreamcatcher situation turned out to be nothing and was dragged on for almost the entire story. The stolen wedding ring had no purpose for the plot, even after being found it was like "Oh, ok I have it now"...
The First Nations people served no purpose other than repeating how they have no clue how to help, then dying to scare our main characters.
This relentless, murderous monster who skins and mimics its victims seems to have no mercy. Unless you're Faye who just can't remember she almost had a brother. For some reason, this horrible creature is so interested by this (can't relate) that it spares her for some reason. And once she remembers she almost had a brother, she wants the monster to leave her alone now and ... well ... it just does. Just like that.
I thought it was going to reveal that her unborn brother was tied to this creature somehow, or became part of it somehow... But nope. Just a crazy murderous demon who really wants to make Faye relive something crappy for no reason, because he feels like it. It's like it cares about the whole brother thing, which is entirely out of character. The brother thing came completely out of nowhere. It didn't circle back around to make everything tie together, it was just totally random and so I didn't have any feelings towards it.
She remembers her almost-brother, has an OTT reaction and complete mental breakdown and then the monster dusts himself off like his job is done here. This *monster* cared way more about what Faye was feeling than I did.
A story sprinkled with stupid here and there only to end in a stupid-bomb. I was so excited to read this, too.