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oliviagwynne 's review for:
Neferura
by Malayna Evans
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
EARC - out Feb 13th
A quick read only 300 or so pages.
Not sure it’s eliciting any feelings from me right now. Very meh. Despite all the “court intrigue”, nothing really happened and it was very dull.
I feel like the world building was not super well developed. It just let the reader rely on their own preconceived knowledge of Ancient Egypt. There would also randomly be modern sayings or words like bartender or ass that would take me right out of the story.
It tried to make it seem like the main character has agency and doesn’t just wait for stuff to happen to her. However she is very naive and sheltered and that naivety made being in her thoughts irritating at times. All she does is hope for other people to come help her find a solution.
Other characters speak of the main character’s stunning intellect and personality however you as the reader don’t really ever see evidence of that in the text.
It’s very dense at times and the tense jumps around a lot. Fought really hard to not DNF.
It got better in terms of things actually happening in the plot but that was at like the 75% mark of the story so it took way too long to get here. The ending is very obvious and abrupt.