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A review by scent_of_the_rain
The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees
4.0
When I started this book I didn’t like it very much. I was intrigued by the synopsis when I first stumbled upon it but I recently read another book which story had a lot to do with a forest and that one was a disappointment.
Luckily this is book is not that one, there are some things I have issue with (I will explain in later on) but overall the story is quite interesting and for the first time I didn’t got bored as soon as the magic was revealed. What I mean by that is that up till this point whenever in a book the story took place in the real world and there were hints of magic and then it was revealed that there is a magic world, and then the story moves to that world I always find the “magical” world so boring that I want to DNF the book. This was not the case with this book, I actually quite enjoyed that part of it.
I liked the characters and how were they written and the world building is pretty solid too. It wasn’t ground breaking and I can’t say that I loved the characters, not even one of them but they didn’t annoy me too much.
The story itself made me want to read which with the reading year I had up till now is quite an accomplishment. This book joined the small group of books I read, that wasn’t a sequel to book I love, that I thought about when I wasn’t reading it.
The only thing that put me off a little bit, specially at the beginning, it that if you take out the magic and twist at the near end then the story is about four sisters that each have some mental issue (sometimes is quite severe sometimes is less so) and parents that doesn’t seem to find the need to help them (apart from giving them self grown calming medicine).
If I stumble upon another book from this author I will consider reading it but I won’t add them to “my favourite authors” list.
Luckily this is book is not that one, there are some things I have issue with (I will explain in later on) but overall the story is quite interesting and for the first time I didn’t got bored as soon as the magic was revealed. What I mean by that is that up till this point whenever in a book the story took place in the real world and there were hints of magic and then it was revealed that there is a magic world, and then the story moves to that world I always find the “magical” world so boring that I want to DNF the book. This was not the case with this book, I actually quite enjoyed that part of it.
I liked the characters and how were they written and the world building is pretty solid too. It wasn’t ground breaking and I can’t say that I loved the characters, not even one of them but they didn’t annoy me too much.
The story itself made me want to read which with the reading year I had up till now is quite an accomplishment. This book joined the small group of books I read, that wasn’t a sequel to book I love, that I thought about when I wasn’t reading it.
The only thing that put me off a little bit, specially at the beginning, it that if you take out the magic and twist at the near end then the story is about four sisters that each have some mental issue (sometimes is quite severe sometimes is less so) and parents that doesn’t seem to find the need to help them (apart from giving them self grown calming medicine).
If I stumble upon another book from this author I will consider reading it but I won’t add them to “my favourite authors” list.