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crisc_bookmarks 's review for:
Ninth House
by Leigh Bardugo
It was a very slow burner for me.
I started really getting sucked into the story way past halfway.
I don't usually have issues with books that follow a non-linear story. I've read a few books that had flashback stories intertwined with the present. However, this one was a real struggle for me to keep up with.
I felt that there wasn't much of a thread between the present and the past, as for the majority of the chapters in the past, the story didn't connect with the present, I didn't care a lot about characters in the past as there was literally not much that was being told that would make you feel for them and their situation in the present.
The author purposefully left all the background story "mysterious" until much later in the book, but this really made me feel disconnected with everything that was happening and left me confused about the urgency of things for a very long time.
When you reach three quarters of the book and the light is shed on a lot of key events, that's when I started really enjoying the story and buying-in the actions of the main character.
A shame really...
I started really getting sucked into the story way past halfway.
I don't usually have issues with books that follow a non-linear story. I've read a few books that had flashback stories intertwined with the present. However, this one was a real struggle for me to keep up with.
I felt that there wasn't much of a thread between the present and the past, as for the majority of the chapters in the past, the story didn't connect with the present, I didn't care a lot about characters in the past as there was literally not much that was being told that would make you feel for them and their situation in the present.
The author purposefully left all the background story "mysterious" until much later in the book, but this really made me feel disconnected with everything that was happening and left me confused about the urgency of things for a very long time.
When you reach three quarters of the book and the light is shed on a lot of key events, that's when I started really enjoying the story and buying-in the actions of the main character.
A shame really...