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A review by patke
Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton
1.0
Likes
-The premise is very promising.
-Dialogue between characters was fun, for the most part.
-I liked that Moulton was very graphic when describing injuries. There were a couple sentences about tendons and ligaments showing and I got pretty excited!
-Ellie's mom was probably my favourite character. She was motherly: worried, strict, kind, loving.
Dislikes
-I thought the beginning was very slow because Ellie focused on her personal life a lot. I thought she would make fighting a priority but she didn't. It took me a while to get into it because for more than half the book, Ellie was chilling with her friends, not focusing on the major issues at hand.
-I couldn't connect with Ellie at all. Probably because I couldn't understand her motives and reasons for doing the things she did.
-In fact, I couldn't connect with any of the characters. They were very inconsistent; they said one thing, did another. Personalities didn't correspond to decisions and actions, especially for Ellie.
-Ellie and her friends were not the type of people I would get along with, which is why I didn't like them as characters.
-Sometimes the dialogue was awkward. I mean, I don't go around calling my friend a "hooker" for going out with someone. I know it's a joke but the word choice is just...weird.
-Ending wasn't really climatic for me.
To Sum It Up
-Wasn't the book for me.
-Didn't capture and hold my attention.
-Didn't care for any of the characters.
-Dialogue was engaging though.
-The premise is very promising.
-Dialogue between characters was fun, for the most part.
-I liked that Moulton was very graphic when describing injuries. There were a couple sentences about tendons and ligaments showing and I got pretty excited!
-Ellie's mom was probably my favourite character. She was motherly: worried, strict, kind, loving.
Dislikes
-I thought the beginning was very slow because Ellie focused on her personal life a lot. I thought she would make fighting a priority but she didn't. It took me a while to get into it because for more than half the book, Ellie was chilling with her friends, not focusing on the major issues at hand.
-I couldn't connect with Ellie at all. Probably because I couldn't understand her motives and reasons for doing the things she did.
-In fact, I couldn't connect with any of the characters. They were very inconsistent; they said one thing, did another. Personalities didn't correspond to decisions and actions, especially for Ellie.
-Ellie and her friends were not the type of people I would get along with, which is why I didn't like them as characters.
-Sometimes the dialogue was awkward. I mean, I don't go around calling my friend a "hooker" for going out with someone. I know it's a joke but the word choice is just...weird.
-Ending wasn't really climatic for me.
To Sum It Up
-Wasn't the book for me.
-Didn't capture and hold my attention.
-Didn't care for any of the characters.
-Dialogue was engaging though.