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jjcraftsandbooks 's review for:
The Breedling and the City in the Garden
by Kimberlee Ann Bastian
First off, I don’t really like the name of this book. It’s a little clunky, The Breedling and The Garden City would have been fine but, like it is, it’s a little long.
This book has made me realise that I don’t really like third person omniscient. It feels very classic, if you like things like that then great but I’ve never been a very big fan of the classics and I think I’m suddenly realising this is why. It reads a bit too much like an essay (lots of howevers and therefores) I also don’t think its done particularly well here either, there is a lot of exposition, especially in the dialog. Exposition in itself isn’t bad but we’re told things we really don’t have to know like the side character’s life stories in dialog that people just wouldn’t say. Charlie Reese talks like he’s reading from a dictionary. I might expect that kind of vocabulary from the immortal breedling that’s however many hundreds of years old but not from a street kid.
The good news is that it gets better towards the last part of the book where we get into the supernatural stuff that the books premise promised and I feel like its set up for a much better second book. It’s just unfortunate that it couldn’t cut down on the side info and get to the good stuff earlier in this book.
Originally posted on: Ever The Crafter
This book has made me realise that I don’t really like third person omniscient. It feels very classic, if you like things like that then great but I’ve never been a very big fan of the classics and I think I’m suddenly realising this is why. It reads a bit too much like an essay (lots of howevers and therefores) I also don’t think its done particularly well here either, there is a lot of exposition, especially in the dialog. Exposition in itself isn’t bad but we’re told things we really don’t have to know like the side character’s life stories in dialog that people just wouldn’t say. Charlie Reese talks like he’s reading from a dictionary. I might expect that kind of vocabulary from the immortal breedling that’s however many hundreds of years old but not from a street kid.
The good news is that it gets better towards the last part of the book where we get into the supernatural stuff that the books premise promised and I feel like its set up for a much better second book. It’s just unfortunate that it couldn’t cut down on the side info and get to the good stuff earlier in this book.
Originally posted on: Ever The Crafter