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A review by emiliedeeann
The Night Country by Melissa Albert
3.0
Okay.. a pretty big let down :(
I LOVED “The Hazelwood.” Everything about it. It’s among my top five fav reads this year. I even DMed the author to let her know (as if I mattered, lol). I was totally hooked on the writing style and characters. It’s a book that sticks with you, or at least it has stuck with me. Ah. I really really loved it.
Unfortunately, in my opinion, this sequel was quite boring. I didn’t understand how the first book could have SO MUCH happen, just for the second book to have like two things happen. It was just a daily blog for Alices’s life. I felt like finch changed too much and his and Alice’s feelings for one another were way too strong and out of left field. I felt like the big reveal in the end was obvious all along. I felt like the writing style went overboard. And, how the heck does Alice’s story end?? You’re still not going to find out.
I could have sworn the original premise I read about this book was “Alice and Finch travel different universes together” or something like that? And I was so excited to get drunk off of Albert’s storytelling and the twists and turns that could happen there. Well, this is about a fallen world trying to pick up its pieces, and a girl split between two worlds raised and trying to find herself, with a mother who also grew up feelings split between two worlds.
I feel like this whole book could’ve been the first 100 pages of a much more interesting book.
I’m still very much looking forward to the tales of Hinterland! I do hope a third book comes out in this series though.
I LOVED “The Hazelwood.” Everything about it. It’s among my top five fav reads this year. I even DMed the author to let her know (as if I mattered, lol). I was totally hooked on the writing style and characters. It’s a book that sticks with you, or at least it has stuck with me. Ah. I really really loved it.
Unfortunately, in my opinion, this sequel was quite boring. I didn’t understand how the first book could have SO MUCH happen, just for the second book to have like two things happen. It was just a daily blog for Alices’s life. I felt like finch changed too much and his and Alice’s feelings for one another were way too strong and out of left field. I felt like the big reveal in the end was obvious all along. I felt like the writing style went overboard. And, how the heck does Alice’s story end?? You’re still not going to find out.
I could have sworn the original premise I read about this book was “Alice and Finch travel different universes together” or something like that? And I was so excited to get drunk off of Albert’s storytelling and the twists and turns that could happen there. Well, this is about a fallen world trying to pick up its pieces, and a girl split between two worlds raised and trying to find herself, with a mother who also grew up feelings split between two worlds.
I feel like this whole book could’ve been the first 100 pages of a much more interesting book.
I’m still very much looking forward to the tales of Hinterland! I do hope a third book comes out in this series though.