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A review by jersy
Pastworld by Ian Beck
2.0
This had so much potential but all it delivered was characters that can hardly be described as such and a focus on the least interesting aspects of the plot (in my opinion).
It started of quit interesting, until a certain point I liked Eve´s POV. There was not that much to her as a character, but it still was an interesting story. I also wanted to know more about the Phantom. Unfortunately, these two were the most rare point of views and most chapters featured Caleb whom I couldn´t have cared less about. He had no real characteristics and just existed throughout most of the story while his father or BibleMac took the most actions in his chapters. The investigators chaptors were fine, some were quit interesting while most of them were not necessarily needed.
I was ok with the book, not really paying too much attention to Calebs later parts and looking forward to everything else, until Caleb and Eve met each other. It happens a little later in the book than I would have thought and has the most weird and rushed insta-love-like moment. From then on I kind of lost interest. The ending seemed a little out of nowhere with no real clues being giving throughout the book and even after the explanation I did not really get why this was a thing (might have been because I just skipped through the pages at this point, might have been explained better than I noticed). The phantom and Eve kind of had some chemistry, though, which surprised me, and I liked the short part with the two of them even though I´m not a huge fan of what happened there plot-wise. I also wished it did a little bit more with the Victorian setting.
While this wasn´t utterly terrible it was not really good or intriguing either. With some things being changed it might have been fine, like information being shared more reguarily and more clues being given, the writing would need some final touches too, since some phrases were kind of off and the character´s blandness was probably the biggest problem.
However, the concept was great (if not fully utilized within the story), the idea for the mystery was good and I guess for young and less experienced readers this can still be fun. For me, it just could not keep my interest up.
It started of quit interesting, until a certain point I liked Eve´s POV. There was not that much to her as a character, but it still was an interesting story. I also wanted to know more about the Phantom. Unfortunately, these two were the most rare point of views and most chapters featured Caleb whom I couldn´t have cared less about. He had no real characteristics and just existed throughout most of the story while his father or BibleMac took the most actions in his chapters. The investigators chaptors were fine, some were quit interesting while most of them were not necessarily needed.
I was ok with the book, not really paying too much attention to Calebs later parts and looking forward to everything else, until Caleb and Eve met each other. It happens a little later in the book than I would have thought and has the most weird and rushed insta-love-like moment. From then on I kind of lost interest. The ending seemed a little out of nowhere with no real clues being giving throughout the book and even after the explanation I did not really get why this was a thing (might have been because I just skipped through the pages at this point, might have been explained better than I noticed). The phantom and Eve kind of had some chemistry, though, which surprised me, and I liked the short part with the two of them even though I´m not a huge fan of what happened there plot-wise. I also wished it did a little bit more with the Victorian setting.
While this wasn´t utterly terrible it was not really good or intriguing either. With some things being changed it might have been fine, like information being shared more reguarily and more clues being given, the writing would need some final touches too, since some phrases were kind of off and the character´s blandness was probably the biggest problem.
However, the concept was great (if not fully utilized within the story), the idea for the mystery was good and I guess for young and less experienced readers this can still be fun. For me, it just could not keep my interest up.