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A review by atagarev
Wolf Girl by Leia Stone
1.0
I've been on a streak of really boring disappointing books lately. With a pitch of "werewolf bachelor," Wolf Girl sounded like it might just be different enough to spark interest but I ended up DNFing halfway through. Its just a book with no substance.
Firstly, while its theoretically an urban fantasy, there is both nothing "urban" (i.e. the world is totally generic, uninteresting and unimportant) and nothing "fantasy" (i.e. magical creatures exist but rather than do anything interesting with them, the author expects readers to assume werewolves, vampires, witches, fey and so on are basically whatever stereotype comes into their head). So we are left with one of the least specific and least imaginative urban fantasy worlds I've ever come across, where the werewolves live in Wolf City, the fey live in Fey City and so on.
So, ok, the author finds her own fantasy world totally pedestrian and uninteresting but the "story" (insofar as one exists at all) is about mysterious magical powers, behind the scenes factional political struggles and traumatic past secrets. Well, that's what it is supposed to be about but our "protagonist" Demi pretty much stops existing when her love interest isn't present. Every single scene we get is either her being upset about him ignoring her or him taking her on a date. At one point there is an assassination attempt against our protagonist that reveals she has a mysterious magical power and in the immediate aftermath, we skip 3 weeks and 6 days ahead because that is when their next date happens. Your whole world is supposed to be turned upside down by shocking revelations, react!
Well, this isn't an urban fantasy and it isn't a mystery/thriller. Its all about her love interest so obviously its supposed to be a romance, right? Here is a list of everything she finds attractive about the love interest:
* he is hot
* he is rich
* he has abs
* he buys her expensive gifts
* he has dimples
* he gives her an unlimited credit card to go shopping
Notice how it is totally devoid of anything about personality or their interactions. That's not an accident, by halfway through the book she's barely had three short conversations with the guy and his best established traits are possessive, jealous and unexpectedly violent.
Or in short, I couldn't find anything interesting in this book. It was an absolute chore to read as far as I did and I saw no indication that it was getting better so I just dropped the book.
Firstly, while its theoretically an urban fantasy, there is both nothing "urban" (i.e. the world is totally generic, uninteresting and unimportant) and nothing "fantasy" (i.e. magical creatures exist but rather than do anything interesting with them, the author expects readers to assume werewolves, vampires, witches, fey and so on are basically whatever stereotype comes into their head). So we are left with one of the least specific and least imaginative urban fantasy worlds I've ever come across, where the werewolves live in Wolf City, the fey live in Fey City and so on.
So, ok, the author finds her own fantasy world totally pedestrian and uninteresting but the "story" (insofar as one exists at all) is about mysterious magical powers, behind the scenes factional political struggles and traumatic past secrets. Well, that's what it is supposed to be about but our "protagonist" Demi pretty much stops existing when her love interest isn't present. Every single scene we get is either her being upset about him ignoring her or him taking her on a date. At one point there is an assassination attempt against our protagonist that reveals she has a mysterious magical power and in the immediate aftermath, we skip 3 weeks and 6 days ahead because that is when their next date happens. Your whole world is supposed to be turned upside down by shocking revelations, react!
Well, this isn't an urban fantasy and it isn't a mystery/thriller. Its all about her love interest so obviously its supposed to be a romance, right? Here is a list of everything she finds attractive about the love interest:
* he is hot
* he is rich
* he has abs
* he buys her expensive gifts
* he has dimples
* he gives her an unlimited credit card to go shopping
Notice how it is totally devoid of anything about personality or their interactions. That's not an accident, by halfway through the book she's barely had three short conversations with the guy and his best established traits are possessive, jealous and unexpectedly violent.
Or in short, I couldn't find anything interesting in this book. It was an absolute chore to read as far as I did and I saw no indication that it was getting better so I just dropped the book.