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ravenstears 's review for:
House of Blight
by Maxym M. Martineau
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wanted to love House of Blight as I thought the magic premise was facinating but despite the threads of a good story being there, it mostly unravelled into a scattered mess.
I found the plot painfully predictable, the FMC to be annoyingly naive and the characters and world to be flat and uninteresting.
The blight could have been an interesting concept but it wasn't delved into anywhere near enough. It's origins weren't explained. How the Ever's, beings suspected on being incapable of getting infected, getting infected wasn't explained. How insects could handle it but normal animals couldn't? Never explained. Nothing was ever explained.
Yet everything that didn't need to be explained in the book was telegraphed so plainly and predictably you knew exactly what was going to happen, and why, well before it did.
A thoroughly disappointing read.
I found the plot painfully predictable, the FMC to be annoyingly naive and the characters and world to be flat and uninteresting.
The blight could have been an interesting concept but it wasn't delved into anywhere near enough. It's origins weren't explained. How the Ever's, beings suspected on being incapable of getting infected, getting infected wasn't explained. How insects could handle it but normal animals couldn't? Never explained. Nothing was ever explained.
Yet everything that didn't need to be explained in the book was telegraphed so plainly and predictably you knew exactly what was going to happen, and why, well before it did.
A thoroughly disappointing read.