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A review by laralarks
This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska
Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.
DNF at Chapter 12
I love the premise of this book, and am actually interested enough in the plot that I may pick this up again in the future, but the prose is, in a word, rough
If it were just a few moments of information dumps over descriptions, or perplexing dialogue tags or anachronistic language, I could let it go. Things like ‘bus’ and ‘tourist’ could be excused: there’s no definite time period listed so I suppose I could allow for this to be more 19th century in origin.
I had to put the book down at calling God ‘Sky Daddy.’ It was just so beyond anachronistic, a nod to a contemporary audience that the book hadn’t set itself up to earn. I feel like this author was aiming for Tamsyn Muir or Margaret Owen, but unfortunately it doesn’t EARN those moments like those two authors do. The humour feels flat because the characters have traits, but not a ton of depth or heart.
I really wanted to like this book. I was so excited for the premise.
I love the premise of this book, and am actually interested enough in the plot that I may pick this up again in the future, but the prose is, in a word, rough
If it were just a few moments of information dumps over descriptions, or perplexing dialogue tags or anachronistic language, I could let it go. Things like ‘bus’ and ‘tourist’ could be excused: there’s no definite time period listed so I suppose I could allow for this to be more 19th century in origin.
I had to put the book down at calling God ‘Sky Daddy.’ It was just so beyond anachronistic, a nod to a contemporary audience that the book hadn’t set itself up to earn. I feel like this author was aiming for Tamsyn Muir or Margaret Owen, but unfortunately it doesn’t EARN those moments like those two authors do. The humour feels flat because the characters have traits, but not a ton of depth or heart.
I really wanted to like this book. I was so excited for the premise.