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cosy_crow 's review for:
We Ride the Storm
by Devin Madson
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Oof so this is a hard one to review, cause on the surface it's a classic fantasy book, yet some of this really didn't sit right with me.
For such a long book it doesn't care about killing off characters, but only characters that had just shown up and that we don't care about. And pushing the main POVs to basically side characters especially cassandra, the MOST interesting one there, as she can hear the dead (why didn't we see more of this it was practically nothing, we interacted with one dead person, even though she can hear all dead???)
It was also disappointed that there was multiple unneeded references to rape as well as an on page rape scene (where in retaliation people chant? Like.... WWHYYYY I FUCKING HATE THIS SHIT ITS SO UNNEEDED)
The rapist didn't suffer any consequences, the victim didn't seem to care. I was so surprised this wasn't edited out especially the multiple comments that women shouldn't be fighters and should be tending to men.
O and rape was compared to a horse being dead... yeahhhh
I am so surprised no one mentions this in reviews cause it's so often said in the book
There is a few highlights, fun tidbits from cultures such as head severing to release souls. But that's a bout it
Also... why have Rah be a pov, he didn't impact the story in the slightest, it would have been better to have the heiromonk, a man who can read minds and can't die (not really) to be a pov.
This book overall should have been 200 pages as nothing happens on page, the plot is weak and overall is unimpressive.
For such a long book it doesn't care about killing off characters, but only characters that had just shown up and that we don't care about. And pushing the main POVs to basically side characters especially cassandra, the MOST interesting one there, as she can hear the dead (why didn't we see more of this it was practically nothing, we interacted with one dead person, even though she can hear all dead???)
It was also disappointed that there was multiple unneeded references to rape as well as an on page rape scene (where in retaliation people chant? Like.... WWHYYYY I FUCKING HATE THIS SHIT ITS SO UNNEEDED)
The rapist didn't suffer any consequences, the victim didn't seem to care. I was so surprised this wasn't edited out especially the multiple comments that women shouldn't be fighters and should be tending to men.
O and rape was compared to a horse being dead... yeahhhh
I am so surprised no one mentions this in reviews cause it's so often said in the book
There is a few highlights, fun tidbits from cultures such as head severing to release souls. But that's a bout it
Also... why have Rah be a pov, he didn't impact the story in the slightest, it would have been better to have the heiromonk, a man who can read minds and can't die (not really) to be a pov.
This book overall should have been 200 pages as nothing happens on page, the plot is weak and overall is unimpressive.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Murder, War
Minor: Animal death, Death, Blood