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A review by bethsreading
Belladonna by Adalyn Grace
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
DNF at 25% 1⭐️
God this was bad. I was so excited to pick this up and I had heard good things and it was in the kindle 99p sale. But the writing felt like a 2012 whattpad fanfic and Signa was the most annoying main character. Girlie, please put the thesaurus away and stop saying ‘dark tresses’, ‘dark waves’ etc - just say hair dear god. The plot was stupid and the rules of the magic/ghost system were not properly explained, it felt like the author just made up a rule for whatever was convenient to the plot at that moment. She is angry at Death for doing his job and keeps talking about him as if he is the Devil which made no sense. For example she says that Death probably ‘invented deciet’ - why? if anything Death is honest and works for nature, why would he be such a bad guy. The only reason she gives is that she thinks he is obsessed with her and wants to make her life specifically difficult. I think he should have more going on than worrying about the day to day life of some bratty girl. But no, to make things even stupider, it turns out he does care about her and is going to be the love interest? Nope. It was just bad and not even in a fun way. I tried to get to 40% to give it a really fair shot but I actually couldn’t make it a page further.
God this was bad. I was so excited to pick this up and I had heard good things and it was in the kindle 99p sale. But the writing felt like a 2012 whattpad fanfic and Signa was the most annoying main character. Girlie, please put the thesaurus away and stop saying ‘dark tresses’, ‘dark waves’ etc - just say hair dear god. The plot was stupid and the rules of the magic/ghost system were not properly explained, it felt like the author just made up a rule for whatever was convenient to the plot at that moment. She is angry at Death for doing his job and keeps talking about him as if he is the Devil which made no sense. For example she says that Death probably ‘invented deciet’ - why? if anything Death is honest and works for nature, why would he be such a bad guy. The only reason she gives is that she thinks he is obsessed with her and wants to make her life specifically difficult. I think he should have more going on than worrying about the day to day life of some bratty girl. But no, to make things even stupider, it turns out he does care about her and is going to be the love interest? Nope. It was just bad and not even in a fun way. I tried to get to 40% to give it a really fair shot but I actually couldn’t make it a page further.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Murder, and Suicide attempt