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A review by soartfullydone
Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi
Did not finish book.
1.0
DNF'd at 53%
The characters make no sense, the dialogue is worse, and the world building is non-existent. I don't know if the author was leaning so heavily on the myth that she didn't realize she was doing this, but either way, it doesn't make for a good novel, unfortunately.
The POVs of Atalanta and Kahina have them each appearing so fearful and all over the place internally, but somehow externally, they're both larger than life and confident and otherworldly in a way that cannot be reconciled with their inner musings. It doesn't help, either, that their POVs sound exactly the same, but somehow they're supposed to be two different characters. Despite being in both their heads, I feel like I barely know anything about them. Despite all these other characters they're supposedly tied to, I feel nothing about their history with these characters because well... There's nothing there. I wasn't a big fan, either, about how the author switched from first-person present tense to third-person past tense for weird dreams and flashback scenes, especially since those brief moments were actually stronger bits of writing than the rest of the book.
This is also supposed to be a forbidden romance between the two women, and it's just... not done well at all. Again, there's nothing there to make this interesting or tingly or any of those great words a forbidden romance is supposed to make you feel.
Finally, Artemis and Apollo are far more interesting than what was actually depicted here. I'm especially offended on behalf of Artemis. You deserved better than to just be The Bitch trope, fam. Maybe I'm biased, but I just find this author's grasp of famous Greek figures and their characterizations to be questionable at best.
The characters make no sense, the dialogue is worse, and the world building is non-existent. I don't know if the author was leaning so heavily on the myth that she didn't realize she was doing this, but either way, it doesn't make for a good novel, unfortunately.
The POVs of Atalanta and Kahina have them each appearing so fearful and all over the place internally, but somehow externally, they're both larger than life and confident and otherworldly in a way that cannot be reconciled with their inner musings. It doesn't help, either, that their POVs sound exactly the same, but somehow they're supposed to be two different characters. Despite being in both their heads, I feel like I barely know anything about them. Despite all these other characters they're supposedly tied to, I feel nothing about their history with these characters because well... There's nothing there. I wasn't a big fan, either, about how the author switched from first-person present tense to third-person past tense for weird dreams and flashback scenes, especially since those brief moments were actually stronger bits of writing than the rest of the book.
This is also supposed to be a forbidden romance between the two women, and it's just... not done well at all. Again, there's nothing there to make this interesting or tingly or any of those great words a forbidden romance is supposed to make you feel.
Finally, Artemis and Apollo are far more interesting than what was actually depicted here. I'm especially offended on behalf of Artemis. You deserved better than to just be The Bitch trope, fam. Maybe I'm biased, but I just find this author's grasp of famous Greek figures and their characterizations to be questionable at best.