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A review by racheln23
The Serpent's Curse by Tony Abbott
2.0
Oh the agony of finishing this book! The characters remain flat, and the plot is disjointed. The author writes "mysteriously" and as though we are all in his head, but it really leaves improbable puzzles to solve and confusion for the reader. The characters solving all their little puzzles never struck me as genius; it struck me as dull and nonsensical. My biggest grievance with the story occurred at the very beginning, where the author keeps referencing things that happened in San Francisco, as if it were something that occurred in the previous book. Maybe I dozed off when I was flipping pages before, but I could never find a layover in SF even though I went back several times out of annoyed curiosity.
The pace for finding the second of twelve relics was painful, and just thinking about suffering through ten more books (at the pace of one relic per book) made my skin crawl. I felt a duty to finish the book, but I have to remember that life is too short to waste reading a bad book when fabulous stories do abound. Skip this series if you can.
The pace for finding the second of twelve relics was painful, and just thinking about suffering through ten more books (at the pace of one relic per book) made my skin crawl. I felt a duty to finish the book, but I have to remember that life is too short to waste reading a bad book when fabulous stories do abound. Skip this series if you can.