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alex_readsbooks 's review for:
The Cloisters
by Katy Hays
Fairly conflicted feelings about this one. On the one hand, as an academic who is obsessed with literally a whole bunch of the history described in this book, I loved it. On the other, the plot felt stunted and slow at times but too fast at others.
I love myself a dark academia book and the setting being the Met Cloisters in New York City was *chef’s kiss.* I also loved the tarot card aspect, though I thought it could have been taken further.
What bothered me the most was the pacing. The book is short and covers a whole summer and each scene they cover is very in depth but then it fast forwards weeks ahead and it feels like we miss a whole bunch of character and plot development that could’ve made the story much more dynamic and full-bodied.
The climax was also comically dramatic when it wasn’t supposed to be and then simply skipped over the second half of the scene. The author instead opts to retrospectively fill us in on what happened and it made the ending just…lukewarm. However, there was a twist that made me gasp and I should’ve seen it coming.
Mostly, a mixed bag of history an wannabe thriller.
I love myself a dark academia book and the setting being the Met Cloisters in New York City was *chef’s kiss.* I also loved the tarot card aspect, though I thought it could have been taken further.
What bothered me the most was the pacing. The book is short and covers a whole summer and each scene they cover is very in depth but then it fast forwards weeks ahead and it feels like we miss a whole bunch of character and plot development that could’ve made the story much more dynamic and full-bodied.
The climax was also comically dramatic when it wasn’t supposed to be and then simply skipped over the second half of the scene. The author instead opts to retrospectively fill us in on what happened and it made the ending just…lukewarm. However, there was a twist that made me gasp and I should’ve seen it coming.
Mostly, a mixed bag of history an wannabe thriller.