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Lore
by Alexandra Bracken
I thought this would be an easy 5-star read, but after thinking about it for a while, I can't give it more than 3.5 stars.
1. The beginning is the strongest part. I really loves the first 150 pages, and I enjoyed the whole book, but it just kept getting worse.
2. I feel like I didn't get enough description of the setting? There was some name dropping, but I didn't feel like I was in the streets of New York.
3. The flashback scenes kept interrupting the alredy not-so-well-flowing plot.
4. The main villan is one dimensional and weakly written.
5. This should be NA. I'm not saying there should be more spice, I'm just tired of reading about a group of teenagers running around trying to save the world while adults are nowhere to be seen. I kept imagining Lore as a 20-year-old and was shocked to realise she's only 17.
6. I liked the main characters, but for a 546-page-long book they could've been more fleshed out.
7. I still don't know what the point of the Agon was / what Zeus' plan was.
Still a solid read, and better than Bracken's previous work! (I've only read Darkest Minds, but still). If you like books with (deadly) competitions and Greek mythology, you should give it a go
1. The beginning is the strongest part. I really loves the first 150 pages, and I enjoyed the whole book, but it just kept getting worse.
2. I feel like I didn't get enough description of the setting? There was some name dropping, but I didn't feel like I was in the streets of New York.
3. The flashback scenes kept interrupting the alredy not-so-well-flowing plot.
4. The main villan is one dimensional and weakly written.
5. This should be NA. I'm not saying there should be more spice, I'm just tired of reading about a group of teenagers running around trying to save the world while adults are nowhere to be seen. I kept imagining Lore as a 20-year-old and was shocked to realise she's only 17.
6. I liked the main characters, but for a 546-page-long book they could've been more fleshed out.
7. I still don't know what the point of the Agon was / what Zeus' plan was.
Still a solid read, and better than Bracken's previous work! (I've only read Darkest Minds, but still). If you like books with (deadly) competitions and Greek mythology, you should give it a go