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A review by bookboyfriendandhusbandmake3
Fractured Things by Samantha Lovelock
1.0
I was looking forward to this book, and hoping for something that unfortunately didn’t didn’t happen.
I thought book 2 would take us deeper into the Folkestone Sins world, and expected to have secrets unravel while Stella finds out more about her family, and some of those things do happen.
It was extremely difficult to become immersed in this story. The characters' inner monologue was most of this book with only small parts of dialogue between characters, and even some situations that could have been an opportunity for more engaging dialogue were instead highlighted through the inner monologue.
In the first book the connection between Stella and Poe was palpable from the moments they met and grew more intense with every interaction, but I didn’t get the same feeling between them in this.
It could have to do with the lack of interaction through dialogue and only having those be from an inner monologue point of view but regardless, I just didn’t feel the intensity they previously shared. I found myself skimming pages and even then not feeling as though I missed anything.
The few interactions they did share were overruled by miscommunication and dramatic reactions, although some of the reaction is understandable, at a point it just became drama for the sake of drama. This has “Dark High School Romance” in the title yet, this isn’t even on the gray scale of being dark.
Taking into consideration that when the chapters go from Stella’s pov to Poe’s the change in perspective of the character retells the ending of the previous chapter which was only slightly annoying, but the worst part was that often times in the retelling from the other pov facts and situations didn’t match the previous chapter. A few times I went back to the previous chapter thinking maybe I missed it, but that wasn’t the case.
The best part of this was the fierce loyal friendship that Sunday and Stella have. Stella needed someone in her corner and although we don’t have Sunday’s story yet, I feel like she needed someone too.
After reading the first book in the series I was looking forward to seeing not only how Poe and Stella’s story played out but also the secondat=ry characters the seemed full of intrigue and entertainment with the little hints of secrets they were keeping and the banter they had, but unfortunately I didn’t get that same feeling throughout book 2, and this is where the series will end for me.
I thought book 2 would take us deeper into the Folkestone Sins world, and expected to have secrets unravel while Stella finds out more about her family, and some of those things do happen.
It was extremely difficult to become immersed in this story. The characters' inner monologue was most of this book with only small parts of dialogue between characters, and even some situations that could have been an opportunity for more engaging dialogue were instead highlighted through the inner monologue.
In the first book the connection between Stella and Poe was palpable from the moments they met and grew more intense with every interaction, but I didn’t get the same feeling between them in this.
It could have to do with the lack of interaction through dialogue and only having those be from an inner monologue point of view but regardless, I just didn’t feel the intensity they previously shared. I found myself skimming pages and even then not feeling as though I missed anything.
The few interactions they did share were overruled by miscommunication and dramatic reactions, although some of the reaction is understandable, at a point it just became drama for the sake of drama. This has “Dark High School Romance” in the title yet, this isn’t even on the gray scale of being dark.
Taking into consideration that when the chapters go from Stella’s pov to Poe’s the change in perspective of the character retells the ending of the previous chapter which was only slightly annoying, but the worst part was that often times in the retelling from the other pov facts and situations didn’t match the previous chapter. A few times I went back to the previous chapter thinking maybe I missed it, but that wasn’t the case.
The best part of this was the fierce loyal friendship that Sunday and Stella have. Stella needed someone in her corner and although we don’t have Sunday’s story yet, I feel like she needed someone too.
After reading the first book in the series I was looking forward to seeing not only how Poe and Stella’s story played out but also the secondat=ry characters the seemed full of intrigue and entertainment with the little hints of secrets they were keeping and the banter they had, but unfortunately I didn’t get that same feeling throughout book 2, and this is where the series will end for me.