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A review by thelilbulldozer
Dreams of the Dying by Nicolas Lietzau
Rant Incoming:
I had extremely high hopes going into this novel not only because the cover is absolutely gorgeous in my opinion but the overall premise of the story sounded very interesting and I just came out of a 700 page romance book when I started this book so I knew that if it was a good juicy fantasy story I would not be able to put it down. I was craving a fantasy book so bad when I started this and yet I could not get past 16% of this book.
The only thing you can really see from the Goodreads page of this novel is that it has so many 4 and 5 star ratings... however when you dig for those 1, 2 and 3 star ratings you can see a common theme: it's not well written.
There is no character development at the beginning of the book as there are no reasons for why our main character is going on this journey. And if Jespar's lack of character development drove me mad, don't even get me started on Lissja.
Lissja is supposed come off as this anti capitalist, defund the system, the "great American dream" sucks person, and yet she has no problem at all going on a mission to save a man who is--you guessed it--a rich man who built his wealthy off of the economic prosperity that thrives within a capitalist system. I apologize if you're somebody who is anti-capitalism but let me tell you that the man, the legend that is the founder of economics (Adam Smith) has said that the best economic system to use for a successful economy is capitalism. [The Wealth of Nations, 1776].
Back to Lissja however; it just does not make sense why someone who fundamentally disagrees with the idea of capitalism would be so willing to save one of the richest men in this world from an mysterious illness and no you cannot make me believe that it is out of curiosity because I mean come on, stick to your morals!
The world itself is extremely detailed I would say despite the fact that I have no idea what it looks like I just get the idea that the author spent a lot of time imagining this world (which is based off of a video game of his) because of the amount of info dumping.
It constantly felt like the story was info dumping, and not the type of info dumping that made sense to be told in that part of the story, just info dumps for the sake of it, and was thrown in their Willie Nelly to try and get across the fact that this world is so beautiful, so Majestic, so grand, so large, so rich, and so mean to those who don't look like themselves.
I am not saying that you cannot have a book that holds social justice messaging within it, go right on ahead, after all, you're someome who has actually published a novel while I am still someone who just has a bunch of drafts saved to her desktop, however: if you are going to include it, at least do it right.
I had extremely high hopes going into this novel not only because the cover is absolutely gorgeous in my opinion but the overall premise of the story sounded very interesting and I just came out of a 700 page romance book when I started this book so I knew that if it was a good juicy fantasy story I would not be able to put it down. I was craving a fantasy book so bad when I started this and yet I could not get past 16% of this book.
The only thing you can really see from the Goodreads page of this novel is that it has so many 4 and 5 star ratings... however when you dig for those 1, 2 and 3 star ratings you can see a common theme: it's not well written.
There is no character development at the beginning of the book as there are no reasons for why our main character is going on this journey. And if Jespar's lack of character development drove me mad, don't even get me started on Lissja.
Lissja is supposed come off as this anti capitalist, defund the system, the "great American dream" sucks person, and yet she has no problem at all going on a mission to save a man who is--you guessed it--a rich man who built his wealthy off of the economic prosperity that thrives within a capitalist system. I apologize if you're somebody who is anti-capitalism but let me tell you that the man, the legend that is the founder of economics (Adam Smith) has said that the best economic system to use for a successful economy is capitalism. [The Wealth of Nations, 1776].
Back to Lissja however; it just does not make sense why someone who fundamentally disagrees with the idea of capitalism would be so willing to save one of the richest men in this world from an mysterious illness and no you cannot make me believe that it is out of curiosity because I mean come on, stick to your morals!
The world itself is extremely detailed I would say despite the fact that I have no idea what it looks like I just get the idea that the author spent a lot of time imagining this world (which is based off of a video game of his) because of the amount of info dumping.
It constantly felt like the story was info dumping, and not the type of info dumping that made sense to be told in that part of the story, just info dumps for the sake of it, and was thrown in their Willie Nelly to try and get across the fact that this world is so beautiful, so Majestic, so grand, so large, so rich, and so mean to those who don't look like themselves.
I am not saying that you cannot have a book that holds social justice messaging within it, go right on ahead, after all, you're someome who has actually published a novel while I am still someone who just has a bunch of drafts saved to her desktop, however: if you are going to include it, at least do it right.