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A review by wildflowerz76
The Waking Land by Callie Bates
4.0
I received this as an ARC for an honest review:
I enjoyed reading a character who isn't perfect right from the start. She believes what she's been told and doesn't question it until she has to. It's certainly a familiar situation to those of us who are raised with a set of values, but find their own voice once they leave home.
The author did a great job of introducing characters in a way where they DON'T all blend together. That tends to be a common problem in the fantasy genre where there's a big info-dump in the beginning. I didn't feel like that with this book at all. I had no real character confusion at all.
I didn't really feel the love with Elanna and Jahan. I felt like I missed a pivotal scene where she fell in love with him, because it felt like it came out of nowhere. I felt like her whole change of view was a bit too quick also. Maybe "quick" isn't the right word... It felt like she was do adamant in her stance and then she just...changed her mind. There wasn't anything really big to cause that change. We didn't even really get much of an inner monologue struggle. It just felt a bit off.
But overall, I liked this one a lot and I'd definitely recommend it.
I enjoyed reading a character who isn't perfect right from the start. She believes what she's been told and doesn't question it until she has to. It's certainly a familiar situation to those of us who are raised with a set of values, but find their own voice once they leave home.
The author did a great job of introducing characters in a way where they DON'T all blend together. That tends to be a common problem in the fantasy genre where there's a big info-dump in the beginning. I didn't feel like that with this book at all. I had no real character confusion at all.
I didn't really feel the love with Elanna and Jahan. I felt like I missed a pivotal scene where she fell in love with him, because it felt like it came out of nowhere. I felt like her whole change of view was a bit too quick also. Maybe "quick" isn't the right word... It felt like she was do adamant in her stance and then she just...changed her mind. There wasn't anything really big to cause that change. We didn't even really get much of an inner monologue struggle. It just felt a bit off.
But overall, I liked this one a lot and I'd definitely recommend it.