A review by th18
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

adventurous mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This book was just fine. Nothing amazing. The writing felt juvenile and so many events  were happening it felt rushed. I was irritated by the author constantly reminding us of how small the FMC was - her 'tiny frame' and how cardigans engulfed her etc. 

Also she has a ton of bad personality traits that are just brushed away as her being a Young, like being too stubborn for her own good,not listening to anyone and not giving the map to the police like a sensible person after the break in and when she realised it would put a literal target on her back. 


 Lastly, her relationship kinda came out of nowhere after  ignoring eachother the past 7 yrs. (Idk why Felix couldn't understand that she couldnt control her father firing him?!) 
and honestly atleast 100 pages could've been dropped. 

The nicer things:
  Great idea but not great execution. It's nice that she still chose to stick with her passion for maps instead of going for a different higher paying job
(though unsure how she was going to be the SENIOR researcher at NYPL 2 days after returning to the place even though she hasn't even been working in a library the past 7 yrs).
  Also somehow kept me reading until the end so props to the author for that.
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