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A review by mi__ela
He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan
dark
slow-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Getting through this book was the most painful experience I have had to go through lately. I dreaded every second of it and I'll never get that time back.
I think one of the main reasons for my dislike is that this is a story about people who hate themselves, specifically because of their queerness and of their womanhood/femininity, or the womanhood that was imposed on them. So I couldn't allow myself to be fully immersed into the story. And the fact that until the end that womanhood is hidden, shoved into the darkness, and denied just didn't sit right with me.
The titles of these 2 books are so misleading because I was more than halfway through the book and I still wasn't sure who is "he who drowned the world."
The text was too challenging for me. I don't know whether it was because I didn't feel engaged in the story or it was the actual writing, but the amount of times i had to reread a whole page because I felt like I was reading nothing, was insane.
Felt no connection with the characters, and out of all of 3 of them, Baoxiang was probably the only one with some sort of development.....
I HATED HATED the multiple POVs. for this duology the best thing the author could have done was to have only 2 POVs of the 2 main (?) characters, instead of throwing us into the minds of everyone else just to fill in the voids.
I think one of the main reasons for my dislike is that this is a story about people who hate themselves, specifically because of their queerness and of their womanhood/femininity, or the womanhood that was imposed on them. So I couldn't allow myself to be fully immersed into the story. And the fact that until the end that womanhood is hidden, shoved into the darkness, and denied just didn't sit right with me.
The titles of these 2 books are so misleading because I was more than halfway through the book and I still wasn't sure who is "he who drowned the world."
The text was too challenging for me. I don't know whether it was because I didn't feel engaged in the story or it was the actual writing, but the amount of times i had to reread a whole page because I felt like I was reading nothing, was insane.
Felt no connection with the characters, and out of all of 3 of them, Baoxiang was probably the only one with some sort of development.....
I HATED HATED the multiple POVs. for this duology the best thing the author could have done was to have only 2 POVs of the 2 main (?) characters, instead of throwing us into the minds of everyone else just to fill in the voids.