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A review by oashackelford
The Night Country by Melissa Albert
2.0
Alice has officially left the Hinterland behind, or has she? Just when she thinks that she is finally getting her life back on track, the dangerous stories from the Hinterland start acting even more dangerous and paranoid, and then they start dying. Daphne is a story that Alice has never seen before and she starts feeding the other stories' paranoia and fear. Alice needs to find out who is killing off stories before it is too late.
I thought this one was going to be really exciting when I started reading it, but I had a really hard time getting through the book. I can usually whip through a book in a few days, but with this one I felt like it took me a week and a half. I finished the book because I wanted to know who was killing off the stories, but if it weren't for that I probably would have dnf'd.
I just wish we knew more about the stories themselves. In the first book Albert took care to give us background on a few of the stories and laid out their tales. In this book I think we got Sophia's, less carefully told, and the story of the night country, but none of the other stories' backgrounds. I can't be the only one who wanted to hear the rest of Alice's story. Why is she called Alice three times? The book gives us a hint to it, but never actually explains why she is called that or what it has to do with her story. I wanted to know Hansa's and Vega's stories and a few others. I know that you can't give everyone's back story because it would make the book too long, but I think it also would have given me more context for some of the characters and also made me care more about them. Because I can't sympathize with any of the characters, it is harder to feel bad for them when they die, or derision towards them if they were evil.
I don't think this is a book I will read again, or even remember in a year's time.
I thought this one was going to be really exciting when I started reading it, but I had a really hard time getting through the book. I can usually whip through a book in a few days, but with this one I felt like it took me a week and a half. I finished the book because I wanted to know who was killing off the stories, but if it weren't for that I probably would have dnf'd.
I just wish we knew more about the stories themselves. In the first book Albert took care to give us background on a few of the stories and laid out their tales. In this book I think we got Sophia's, less carefully told, and the story of the night country, but none of the other stories' backgrounds. I can't be the only one who wanted to hear the rest of Alice's story. Why is she called Alice three times? The book gives us a hint to it, but never actually explains why she is called that or what it has to do with her story. I wanted to know Hansa's and Vega's stories and a few others. I know that you can't give everyone's back story because it would make the book too long, but I think it also would have given me more context for some of the characters and also made me care more about them. Because I can't sympathize with any of the characters, it is harder to feel bad for them when they die, or derision towards them if they were evil.
I don't think this is a book I will read again, or even remember in a year's time.