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A review by trisha_thomas
The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina
2.0
Another case of "it's not you, it's me."
This book should have been exactly my kind of book. Dystopia, weird mind stuff and "save the planet" kind of kids! YAY!
Instead, it was kind of....boring. Ashala is captured. From there, it's a lot of trying to figure out what on earth was going on. I think it lost me really early on, when the "dog" was leaping in the air in her dream eating "bones."
I don't mind suspense and confusion in a book, but I have to be invested in the character or the story....or the world before you confuse me. Instead, I spent almost the whole book going "wait, what?" and then having to go back and read. And the jumbly memory stuff entirely bored me and from there it was just a push to get it done (since every review talks about how amazing the end is.)
sadly, by the time I got to the end, I was so un-invested I just rolled with it. Not a series I'll be continuing.
This book should have been exactly my kind of book. Dystopia, weird mind stuff and "save the planet" kind of kids! YAY!
Instead, it was kind of....boring. Ashala is captured. From there, it's a lot of trying to figure out what on earth was going on. I think it lost me really early on, when the "dog" was leaping in the air in her dream eating "bones."
I don't mind suspense and confusion in a book, but I have to be invested in the character or the story....or the world before you confuse me. Instead, I spent almost the whole book going "wait, what?" and then having to go back and read. And the jumbly memory stuff entirely bored me and from there it was just a push to get it done (since every review talks about how amazing the end is.)
sadly, by the time I got to the end, I was so un-invested I just rolled with it. Not a series I'll be continuing.