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A review by iam
Among the Glimmering Flowers by S.L. Dove Cooper
Did not finish book.
dnf @ 53% with no rating
I've been trying to read this for several months now and have finally come to terms with that I won't finish it. I want to, or wanted to, but I just.... somehow couldn't.
The story was slow, and I like slow stories, but this one didn't engage me at all. I couldn't read more than a chapter or two at a time before putting it aside again and then had trouble picking it back up.
The writing style itself was nice, but the way the story was told by the characters themselves looking back on their younger selves, making comments here and there, drifting off and getting off track.... a charming idea, but it really didn't work for me as a storytelling device.
Again, the story is extremely slow. For chapters it felt like nothing happened, or things happened but didn't seem to have any relevance or advance plot or story, they just... were. And when something did happened it was partly told twice, once from each main character's POV.
I was confused by a few of the worldbuilding elements, like how the different names work.
I'm hoping to give this another chance or pick it back up to revisit the calm atmosphere in the future, but for now it's been sitting idle on my reading-shelves for too long.
I've been trying to read this for several months now and have finally come to terms with that I won't finish it. I want to, or wanted to, but I just.... somehow couldn't.
The story was slow, and I like slow stories, but this one didn't engage me at all. I couldn't read more than a chapter or two at a time before putting it aside again and then had trouble picking it back up.
The writing style itself was nice, but the way the story was told by the characters themselves looking back on their younger selves, making comments here and there, drifting off and getting off track.... a charming idea, but it really didn't work for me as a storytelling device.
Again, the story is extremely slow. For chapters it felt like nothing happened, or things happened but didn't seem to have any relevance or advance plot or story, they just... were. And when something did happened it was partly told twice, once from each main character's POV.
I was confused by a few of the worldbuilding elements, like how the different names work.
I'm hoping to give this another chance or pick it back up to revisit the calm atmosphere in the future, but for now it's been sitting idle on my reading-shelves for too long.