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armaant27 's review for:
A Touch of Malice
by Scarlett St. Clair
It had the potential to move the series in a direction with varied plots, worldbuilding and character development but just a huge miss. First 2/3rds of the book was your standard filler nothing great but not terrible. Then they start interacting with other gods which started off interesting but turns out the only reason was for a nonsensical fight scene that was really badly written and uninteresting.
In Part 3 it becomes clear the author is actually bored and wants to move on to a different story with the same characters and she needs X to happen so she can do that. I suppose this is the part where the plot advances but it's done with zero effort put into the setup, dialogue, or relationship to anything else thats occurred to this point. We're all aware that books and movies have their characters ignore basic logic at times to keep the story going. It's the thing where you go "why don't they just explain what happened to each other and everything will be fine". That happened alot in the previous two books and the author pulled it off well enough. Unfortunately she tried to switch from drama to action and it didn't work. Difference is you sit there saying "why doesnt she just shoot him/use magic and everything's solved? So thats what Part 3 is, that idea repeated over and over until it ends with an event that we all expected pretending to be a cliffhanger.
To wrap this up I'm not sure what she can do with the story from here. Either it goes back the book one sexual tension theme which would just be reiterating the sex scenes or it goes towards the Fantasy Sword and Magic category? Problem is she can't write Fantasy sword and magic stories as shown in this book so...pretend it's a trilogy and move to a Sanderson book.
In Part 3 it becomes clear the author is actually bored and wants to move on to a different story with the same characters and she needs X to happen so she can do that. I suppose this is the part where the plot advances but it's done with zero effort put into the setup, dialogue, or relationship to anything else thats occurred to this point. We're all aware that books and movies have their characters ignore basic logic at times to keep the story going. It's the thing where you go "why don't they just explain what happened to each other and everything will be fine". That happened alot in the previous two books and the author pulled it off well enough. Unfortunately she tried to switch from drama to action and it didn't work. Difference is you sit there saying "why doesnt she just shoot him/use magic and everything's solved? So thats what Part 3 is, that idea repeated over and over until it ends with an event that we all expected pretending to be a cliffhanger.
To wrap this up I'm not sure what she can do with the story from here. Either it goes back the book one sexual tension theme which would just be reiterating the sex scenes or it goes towards the Fantasy Sword and Magic category? Problem is she can't write Fantasy sword and magic stories as shown in this book so...pretend it's a trilogy and move to a Sanderson book.