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A review by jenbsbooks
Accidental Mystic by Phoebe Ravencraft
Did not finish book. Stopped at 13%.
So ... I was only two chapters in, but this is going to be a DNF for me. I don't feel like it's fair to give a book a rating when one hasn't really read the whole thing ... but I have to say I'm looking at the high ratings and I just don't get it.
I'm just over 50, I read a lot of paranormal. This writing just seemed ... like something I might write, if I tried. I'm not a writer. I am a reader, I read a LOT. I think I'm used to more sophistication in writing? This just seemed so stark, telling, instead of making me feel things. Just a simple statement "I actually thought about killing myself. I simply didn't know how to live with this pain."
It just felt off from the start ... our MC is looking forward to her 50th birthday celebration. She seems a little bi-polar; poor me, I'm going through menopause even though I couldn't have kids, and my first husband divorced me because of that ... of course I look pretty fabulous because I've never had kids. And although she admits (to us, the reader) "I discovered that everything I believed, everyone I loved, was nothing like I'd thought. It was all a terrible, terrible lie." And boy was it ever! She had NO IDEA anything was wrong at all, when she gets after her hubs for working a little late (after 7:00 ... I probably should not admit how late my Hubs works at times) he blows up at her and says he wants a divorce, and that "you hurt everyone in this house every single day". HOW DID THIS MARRIAGE LAST YEARS? Her parents aren't as shocked as she is, as they think he just married her to be a housekeeper/nanny. HOW DID THIS MARRIAGE LAST YEARS? I was miserable just reading about it in the first chapter, then going over it again in the second chapter ... and glancing at another review, it sounds like she continues to do it throughout the book. And yet, she hadn't a clue that anything was wrong at all ... really?
One sentence made me laugh ... "Jess's last name was Metheny. I'd refused to become Bethany Metheny."
So I didn't even get into the paranormal (weird dream, starting to set things up) but the writing just felt stilted and unnatural and instead of feeling like I wanted to pick up my kindle again, I'd dread it. So ... done.
I'm just over 50, I read a lot of paranormal. This writing just seemed ... like something I might write, if I tried. I'm not a writer. I am a reader, I read a LOT. I think I'm used to more sophistication in writing? This just seemed so stark, telling, instead of making me feel things. Just a simple statement "I actually thought about killing myself. I simply didn't know how to live with this pain."
It just felt off from the start ... our MC is looking forward to her 50th birthday celebration. She seems a little bi-polar; poor me, I'm going through menopause even though I couldn't have kids, and my first husband divorced me because of that ... of course I look pretty fabulous because I've never had kids. And although she admits (to us, the reader) "I discovered that everything I believed, everyone I loved, was nothing like I'd thought. It was all a terrible, terrible lie." And boy was it ever! She had NO IDEA anything was wrong at all, when she gets after her hubs for working a little late (after 7:00 ... I probably should not admit how late my Hubs works at times) he blows up at her and says he wants a divorce, and that "you hurt everyone in this house every single day". HOW DID THIS MARRIAGE LAST YEARS? Her parents aren't as shocked as she is, as they think he just married her to be a housekeeper/nanny. HOW DID THIS MARRIAGE LAST YEARS? I was miserable just reading about it in the first chapter, then going over it again in the second chapter ... and glancing at another review, it sounds like she continues to do it throughout the book. And yet, she hadn't a clue that anything was wrong at all ... really?
One sentence made me laugh ... "Jess's last name was Metheny. I'd refused to become Bethany Metheny."
So I didn't even get into the paranormal (weird dream, starting to set things up) but the writing just felt stilted and unnatural and instead of feeling like I wanted to pick up my kindle again, I'd dread it. So ... done.