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dutza4 's review for:
The Memory Thief
by Lauren Mansy
While I expected to enjoy this book quite a lot, considering that the world it was set in was really interesting and the story started off with a pretty good pretext, I must say that I was partly disappointed.
Indeed, the world was interesting, however the entire concept of the people with powers in this world was not explained well enough.
Also, the pacing seemed very odd, with a slow and steady one at the beginning (filled with retrospections and exposition dumps at times) but extremely fast in others.
The thing that I was the least fond of was pretty much everything that involved characters' emotions. The love story in the book was a really fast-paced one, not letting us see it really forming in time. Also, it seems like at times the main character just remembers that she has to show regret for what she had done and cry a little bit to prove it. We do not see a lot of emotional development for some, while for others it is so incredibly fast that it seems unlikely that it actually happened.
I don't think this book is a bad one, but I am also not saying it is a great one. It has strong points, like the world it is set in, the witty banter and the motivations for some characters, but it also has parts that I did not enjoy as much.
All in all, this book had a very strong base, with the world building and character motivation, but I think it lost a little bit of both on the way.
Indeed, the world was interesting, however the entire concept of the people with powers in this world was not explained well enough.
Also, the pacing seemed very odd, with a slow and steady one at the beginning (filled with retrospections and exposition dumps at times) but extremely fast in others.
The thing that I was the least fond of was pretty much everything that involved characters' emotions. The love story in the book was a really fast-paced one, not letting us see it really forming in time. Also, it seems like at times the main character just remembers that she has to show regret for what she had done and cry a little bit to prove it. We do not see a lot of emotional development for some, while for others it is so incredibly fast that it seems unlikely that it actually happened.
I don't think this book is a bad one, but I am also not saying it is a great one. It has strong points, like the world it is set in, the witty banter and the motivations for some characters, but it also has parts that I did not enjoy as much.
All in all, this book had a very strong base, with the world building and character motivation, but I think it lost a little bit of both on the way.