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Walking on Knives by Maya Chhabra
2.0
I received an ARC via netgalley but all opinions are my own.
(book #3 in my pride month challenge)
Um. I'm not sure what to think of this short book. In some ways I recognize it was beautiful and the writing is very unique and...not necessarily lyrical, but not very linear either. While that's something I like sometimes, I didn't particularly love it here. We just didn't click, and that was my main issue with it.
The plot is basically your little mermaid retelling with a FF romance, but it's honestly one of the weirdest types of romance dynamics I've ever read. Which is actually good, but I was so confused at times that I'm not even sure exactly what I read. Was it instalove (at least from one side)? I think so, but I wouldn't bet on it because it's entirely possible I missed something while reading (I won't judge you if you think that's my own fault and not the author's).
There were also some things I didn't entirely appreciate like religion being suddenly thrown in there en passant without it actually affecting the plot or the character development *shrugs* I don't really know where that came from.
Basically the whole book left me confused af if you can't​ tell.3 stars because I know this is a case of "it's not you, it's me" but more like 2,5 Nah you know what, I thought about it and I need to round it down.
(book #3 in my pride month challenge)
Um. I'm not sure what to think of this short book. In some ways I recognize it was beautiful and the writing is very unique and...not necessarily lyrical, but not very linear either. While that's something I like sometimes, I didn't particularly love it here. We just didn't click, and that was my main issue with it.
The plot is basically your little mermaid retelling with a FF romance, but it's honestly one of the weirdest types of romance dynamics I've ever read. Which is actually good, but I was so confused at times that I'm not even sure exactly what I read. Was it instalove (at least from one side)? I think so, but I wouldn't bet on it because it's entirely possible I missed something while reading (I won't judge you if you think that's my own fault and not the author's).
There were also some things I didn't entirely appreciate like religion being suddenly thrown in there en passant without it actually affecting the plot or the character development *shrugs* I don't really know where that came from.
Basically the whole book left me confused af if you can't​ tell.