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A review by moonchildsmonologues
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
3.0
This was a very interesting read and I finished it in record time (for me). The story hooked me from the beginning and I devoured the first half of the story. The magic system was intriguing and I liked most of the characters. I liked the multiple POVs, even though in my opinion Ranamis/Phalues POV didn’t add much to the story and was repetitive and boring.
Sadly as the story progressed I found that the characters lacked depth and development and this took away from my enjoyment of the story. The world-building was almost nonexistent, up to a point where it was hard to conjure up any images of what the characters, their clothes, the buildings, cities, etc. looked like. Also the way the political, moral, etc. themes were discussed seemed almost… childish? What is more, all the characters are adults and 20+ years old, but this was easy to forget, since they acted, thought and talked like 15 year olds. There were also some plot holes and the storytelling was anticlimactic at times, which prevented me from losing myself entirely in the story and most of the time it was hard to feel the high stakes. The ending also left me somewhat unsatisfied and it felt a bit rushed and not thought through.
I feel like this story had a lot of potential but the poor execution took away a lot from the quality. In the end I was invested enough to finish the book and want to know how it ends, but not enough to really feel like I need to know what happens from here on out, so I might not be reading the other parts of the series.
Sadly as the story progressed I found that the characters lacked depth and development and this took away from my enjoyment of the story. The world-building was almost nonexistent, up to a point where it was hard to conjure up any images of what the characters, their clothes, the buildings, cities, etc. looked like. Also the way the political, moral, etc. themes were discussed seemed almost… childish? What is more, all the characters are adults and 20+ years old, but this was easy to forget, since they acted, thought and talked like 15 year olds. There were also some plot holes and the storytelling was anticlimactic at times, which prevented me from losing myself entirely in the story and most of the time it was hard to feel the high stakes. The ending also left me somewhat unsatisfied and it felt a bit rushed and not thought through.
I feel like this story had a lot of potential but the poor execution took away a lot from the quality. In the end I was invested enough to finish the book and want to know how it ends, but not enough to really feel like I need to know what happens from here on out, so I might not be reading the other parts of the series.