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kkm0112 's review for:
Beasts Made of Night
by Tochi Onyebuchi
When I finished reading this book my first thoughts were "Uhhh.... okay." It was just such a nothing book that, had it been structured/edited differently, could have been SO cool! It sets up a world in each people can "remove" their sins from their bodies (or something) and warriors called aki fight the sin-beasts and take the sins into their own bodies. In the city of Kos, akis are very disrespected. Cool premise, huh?
Well, the novel spends the first 3/4 meandering through with no discernible plot-point. Taj (our main character) is a really good sin-beast fighter, then he gets called to kill the sin-beast of a member of the royal family, then he lives in the palace for some unknown reason and some unknown amount of time (?), then he gets "called upon" to leave the walls of the city to train future aki, and THEN something like a plot pops up - but by this point the book is 3/4 of the way down. I did not care about Taj at all, attempts to make tertiary characters secondary were fruitless because they were in it for such a little time (and his infatuation or whatever with the princess was very weird and not bulked out enough), and again, BOOKS SHOULD NOT HAVE A PLOT START WHEN THE BOOK IS ALMOST OVER!
As you can see... I was not a big fan. I only finished it because it is my book-club book; otherwise, I would have put it down. Extra star for the cool concept and imagery, but again - a good editor could have really reorganized this and made it something special
Well, the novel spends the first 3/4 meandering through with no discernible plot-point. Taj (our main character) is a really good sin-beast fighter, then he gets called to kill the sin-beast of a member of the royal family, then he lives in the palace for some unknown reason and some unknown amount of time (?), then he gets "called upon" to leave the walls of the city to train future aki, and THEN something like a plot pops up - but by this point the book is 3/4 of the way down. I did not care about Taj at all, attempts to make tertiary characters secondary were fruitless because they were in it for such a little time (and his infatuation or whatever with the princess was very weird and not bulked out enough), and again, BOOKS SHOULD NOT HAVE A PLOT START WHEN THE BOOK IS ALMOST OVER!
As you can see... I was not a big fan. I only finished it because it is my book-club book; otherwise, I would have put it down. Extra star for the cool concept and imagery, but again - a good editor could have really reorganized this and made it something special