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How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse
by K. Eason
The first half of this, or even possible the first three quarters of this, were a four star book for me. Unfortunately, the ending was bad enough I had to knock a star off my rating.
The start of this book was great. The author created an interesting world, worked in a lot of fun fairy tale bits, and developed a very intriguing protagonist. The book does have a marked tendency to tell you things instead of showing you them, but the narration was so charming I didn't even mind.
However, once Rory gets to the space station, things start to drag. The story just sort of muddles around promising Rory is going to do super badass, innovative, interesting things, but she really does absolutely nothing. The telling instead of showing becomes particularly frustrating once the author decides to involve Kreshti ferns. In basically all big showdowns in the latter half of the book, the author neglects to let us know how characters are feeling. Instead, a mood-ring fern sitting in the background just shifts to various colors, which is a cute idea at first, but quickly becomes boring and confusing because the author fails to mention what any of those colors mean.
Ultimately, it all just puddles together in a sad sort of flop, without any multiverse destroying or any other sort of exciting climax. I wouldn't be half as annoyed if the title and narration didn't spend piles of time insisting that Rory was going to do something really unique, innovative, and exciting. Instead, all she does is
The start of this book was great. The author created an interesting world, worked in a lot of fun fairy tale bits, and developed a very intriguing protagonist. The book does have a marked tendency to tell you things instead of showing you them, but the narration was so charming I didn't even mind.
However, once Rory gets to the space station, things start to drag. The story just sort of muddles around promising Rory is going to do super badass, innovative, interesting things, but she really does absolutely nothing. The telling instead of showing becomes particularly frustrating once the author decides to involve Kreshti ferns. In basically all big showdowns in the latter half of the book, the author neglects to let us know how characters are feeling. Instead, a mood-ring fern sitting in the background just shifts to various colors, which is a cute idea at first, but quickly becomes boring and confusing because the author fails to mention what any of those colors mean.
Ultimately, it all just puddles together in a sad sort of flop, without any multiverse destroying or any other sort of exciting climax. I wouldn't be half as annoyed if the title and narration didn't spend piles of time insisting that Rory was going to do something really unique, innovative, and exciting. Instead, all she does is