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aurqra 's review for:
To Kill a Kingdom
by Alexandra Christo
I stopped reading this around the 50th page.
Cool idea, disappointing delivery.
I could not get into this, the writing is really strange, it's first person but there is soooo much exposition done in such a clumsy way that it really bothered me. It just ruins the world building. Every single time a characters does/see something they have to explain where it comes from, what it means etc, I know this is a debut novel but I mean show don't tell is literally the first rule of writing, come on. You can totally tell that the writer wants to have some badass sentences, but again that didn't do it for me, it just felt cliché.
The main characters felt exactly the same, personnality-wise, they're brutal but have soft spots, cool, what else? The entire plot resolves around something that doesn't make any sense, like no spoilers, but she had to wait a couple weeks but she couldn't? Nope. I feel like I just need to stop reading about 15-18 years old that pretend to have the same life experience as people who are at least in their thirties, it's completely unrealistic and it just makes me sigh.
Anyways, I absolutely love The Little Mermaid and this could have been great but it's a hard pass for me.
Cool idea, disappointing delivery.
I could not get into this, the writing is really strange, it's first person but there is soooo much exposition done in such a clumsy way that it really bothered me. It just ruins the world building. Every single time a characters does/see something they have to explain where it comes from, what it means etc, I know this is a debut novel but I mean show don't tell is literally the first rule of writing, come on. You can totally tell that the writer wants to have some badass sentences, but again that didn't do it for me, it just felt cliché.
The main characters felt exactly the same, personnality-wise, they're brutal but have soft spots, cool, what else? The entire plot resolves around something that doesn't make any sense, like no spoilers, but she had to wait a couple weeks but she couldn't? Nope. I feel like I just need to stop reading about 15-18 years old that pretend to have the same life experience as people who are at least in their thirties, it's completely unrealistic and it just makes me sigh.
Anyways, I absolutely love The Little Mermaid and this could have been great but it's a hard pass for me.