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tridecalogism 's review for:
Roseblood
by A.G. Howard
Actual Rating: 1 and a half.
Spoilers Throughout.
I have loved and adored Howard's writing since reading the Splintered trilogy and its companion Untamed. I have reread that trilogy countless times now and it never fails to pull me in.
Reading RoseBlood felt like an entirely different author, one who created a Mary Sue main character and was overly obsessed with sets of 3 describing words, and metaphors. I could not stand the main character, she bugged and irritated me the whole way through, came across as a massive hypocritic, went back on opinions she had voiced earlier in the book and her internal monologue the whole way through had me tearing my hair out.
The romance between her and Thorn felt completely forced, out of the blue and quite frankly made no sense. Even with the inclusion of the whole 'dream-sharing-all-our-lives' scenario, it still felt like a horrendously tiny amount of time for them to fall in love.
Super Spoilers Throughout:
Psychic Vampires? Seriously? Twin souls? Seriously? I genuinely nearly spat my tea everywhere when I actually read the line 'Psychic Vampires'. I don't even know how to accurately express my hatred and contempt for that whole plot line. It felt like there were 5 or 6 different ideas for this novel, and Howard couldn't decide which one to use so she mushed them all together. I don't know what the singing had to do with being a psychic vampire, a magical violin that can trap voices makes no sense, twin souls being reincarnated/recycled but only those of psychic vampires makes no sense. The whole thing felt like it was all over the place and all these plot lines and ideas seemed sketchily sewn together but were coming slowly undone. The over explanation of various plot reveals took brought you ouy of the book and to me at least, made me feel like Howard knew this wouldn't make sense withouy an entire page of explanation. Nothing flowed or fit together well at all.
It genuinely pains me to write this because the Splintered trilogy absolutely blew my mind. I had my qualms but on the whole it was a beautiful, dark, twised and intricate series, is one of my absolute favourites and one that I will continue to reread to the day I die.
RoseBlood however will undoubtedly sit on my bookshelf gathering dust until I am 6 feet under.
Spoilers Throughout.
I have loved and adored Howard's writing since reading the Splintered trilogy and its companion Untamed. I have reread that trilogy countless times now and it never fails to pull me in.
Reading RoseBlood felt like an entirely different author, one who created a Mary Sue main character and was overly obsessed with sets of 3 describing words, and metaphors. I could not stand the main character, she bugged and irritated me the whole way through, came across as a massive hypocritic, went back on opinions she had voiced earlier in the book and her internal monologue the whole way through had me tearing my hair out.
The romance between her and Thorn felt completely forced, out of the blue and quite frankly made no sense. Even with the inclusion of the whole 'dream-sharing-all-our-lives' scenario, it still felt like a horrendously tiny amount of time for them to fall in love.
Super Spoilers Throughout:
Psychic Vampires? Seriously? Twin souls? Seriously? I genuinely nearly spat my tea everywhere when I actually read the line 'Psychic Vampires'. I don't even know how to accurately express my hatred and contempt for that whole plot line. It felt like there were 5 or 6 different ideas for this novel, and Howard couldn't decide which one to use so she mushed them all together. I don't know what the singing had to do with being a psychic vampire, a magical violin that can trap voices makes no sense, twin souls being reincarnated/recycled but only those of psychic vampires makes no sense. The whole thing felt like it was all over the place and all these plot lines and ideas seemed sketchily sewn together but were coming slowly undone. The over explanation of various plot reveals took brought you ouy of the book and to me at least, made me feel like Howard knew this wouldn't make sense withouy an entire page of explanation. Nothing flowed or fit together well at all.
It genuinely pains me to write this because the Splintered trilogy absolutely blew my mind. I had my qualms but on the whole it was a beautiful, dark, twised and intricate series, is one of my absolute favourites and one that I will continue to reread to the day I die.
RoseBlood however will undoubtedly sit on my bookshelf gathering dust until I am 6 feet under.