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slowbollard 's review for:
David Mogo, Godhunter
by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
I wanted to love this and really thought I would. The setting, the premise, even the cover told me that I would love this book, that it would be something unique and beautiful. And it just wasn't anything special. The plot, the 'twists', the characters - all pretty standard, unsurprising, and at times, painfully predictable.
Oh no! Our hero has been captured! How ever will he get out of this one?! Will he use his wits or his superpowers or - oh...his friends show up at the last minute and rescue him? Ah, okay. Oh no, he's captured again! Will he - friends show up in the nick of time again? Oh. Well.
The story tortuously drags on, bouncing around from location to location, battle to battle, in a jerky and yet tedious fashion, never pausing to make us fall in love with the characters or the world. I managed to power through the whole thing, but I really didn't want to. One thing that really annoyed me is that some of the characters *sometimes* speak in some sort of dialect that's not easy to decipher and we're not always given context to understand what they're trying to say. That's not a deal breaker, but the inconsistency is. The same character will switch back and forth, randomly from scene to scene, sometimes even *within* a scene. Worse, the freaking narrator did this occasionally WITHIN the narrative. I'd give it one star, but that feels just plain mean. The author made a valiant attempt and had some good ideas, so I applaud his efforts and hope he keeps honing his skills. I just won't know if he does because I really don't want to read another one.
Oh no! Our hero has been captured! How ever will he get out of this one?! Will he use his wits or his superpowers or - oh...his friends show up at the last minute and rescue him? Ah, okay. Oh no, he's captured again! Will he - friends show up in the nick of time again? Oh. Well.
The story tortuously drags on, bouncing around from location to location, battle to battle, in a jerky and yet tedious fashion, never pausing to make us fall in love with the characters or the world. I managed to power through the whole thing, but I really didn't want to. One thing that really annoyed me is that some of the characters *sometimes* speak in some sort of dialect that's not easy to decipher and we're not always given context to understand what they're trying to say. That's not a deal breaker, but the inconsistency is. The same character will switch back and forth, randomly from scene to scene, sometimes even *within* a scene. Worse, the freaking narrator did this occasionally WITHIN the narrative. I'd give it one star, but that feels just plain mean. The author made a valiant attempt and had some good ideas, so I applaud his efforts and hope he keeps honing his skills. I just won't know if he does because I really don't want to read another one.