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A review by fabiaela
Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch
2.0
I was totally underwhelmed by this one. The majority of reviews were extremely positive so I was eager to get stuck in, however I was sorely dissapointed.... and I still don't get how the 'Ashes' part of the title comes into it all (Though this may be the result of some major skim-reading)
My main issue was with how unrealistically the characters behaved, they just didn't seem natural. I mean the scene with all the Winter refugees getting angry at Meira over flower arrangements - ridiculous! And how she was able to so casually walk into the king's study and conveniently find a letter that revealed *spoiler* - ridiculous!!
I found almost everything in this book unconvincing. Meira annoyed the heck out of me, Theron and Mather were boring, Sir's behaviour didn't make any sense to me. I couldn't get any feel for the size of Pragalia or whatever it's called.
AND the amount of times Meira sees Mather or Sir say something to the other only to get an angry reaction seems like really poor writing to me; what's the point!
The Author does use some nice description though...
My main issue was with how unrealistically the characters behaved, they just didn't seem natural. I mean the scene with all the Winter refugees getting angry at Meira over flower arrangements - ridiculous! And how she was able to so casually walk into the king's study and conveniently find a letter that revealed *spoiler* - ridiculous!!
I found almost everything in this book unconvincing. Meira annoyed the heck out of me, Theron and Mather were boring, Sir's behaviour didn't make any sense to me. I couldn't get any feel for the size of Pragalia or whatever it's called.
AND the amount of times Meira sees Mather or Sir say something to the other only to get an angry reaction seems like really poor writing to me; what's the point!
The Author does use some nice description though...