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emilyzinger 's review for:
Hades
by Alexandra Adornetto
Better than Halo. I finally felt like the characters had real personalities and the plot was interesting enough that I found myself wanting to know what happens next.
My biggest complaint is with descriptions. There were so many that went like this: "Gabriel, Ivy, and Xavier sat around the dining table. It was littered with pizza boxes and cans of soda-something rarely seen in our house. They must have run out of napkins because they were using a roll of paper towel. It told me the no one could muster the motivation for the usual routines, and cooking and shopping were the first to go" (page 169). There's no need to point out the obvious. As a reader, I can tell that worrying about Beth has gotten in the way of their everyday routines from the pizza boxes and the fact that they've run out of napkins, so stating it just feels redundant and takes away from an otherwise good description of the setting and current state of the characters. Another one that stood out to me was, "He looked superhuman, as if he could shoulder a car with minimal effort. That was probably because he could if the situation called for it" (page 334). I'm not sure exactly why, but reading this made me cringe, and there were so many more bad descriptions throughout the book that even though I wanted to know how it ended, it was really hard to finish.
My biggest complaint is with descriptions. There were so many that went like this: "Gabriel, Ivy, and Xavier sat around the dining table. It was littered with pizza boxes and cans of soda-something rarely seen in our house. They must have run out of napkins because they were using a roll of paper towel. It told me the no one could muster the motivation for the usual routines, and cooking and shopping were the first to go" (page 169). There's no need to point out the obvious. As a reader, I can tell that worrying about Beth has gotten in the way of their everyday routines from the pizza boxes and the fact that they've run out of napkins, so stating it just feels redundant and takes away from an otherwise good description of the setting and current state of the characters. Another one that stood out to me was, "He looked superhuman, as if he could shoulder a car with minimal effort. That was probably because he could if the situation called for it" (page 334). I'm not sure exactly why, but reading this made me cringe, and there were so many more bad descriptions throughout the book that even though I wanted to know how it ended, it was really hard to finish.