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nochmehrbuecher 's review for:
Ghost Slayer
by Majanka Verstraete
I received an arc of this novel in exchange for a honest review. Thank you, Netgalley and Fire Quill Publishing, for the opportunity!
Ghost Slayer by Majanka Verstraete pretty much fulfills every YA cliché. While I still had some hopes when I started reading it, I found myself rolling my eyes more and more often towards the middle and the end of the book. It felt like a 2010 throwback … and at a bad one at that.
Things I did not enjoy:
・ The main character Kaelyn is a Mary Sue par excellence. She's got the green eyes and the dark hair and pretends to be super badass because she's a Ghost Slayer. Except she doesn't really slay ghosts, and every time she encounters one, she founds herself glued to the floor. A shame, considering she's been doing this for years.
・ Even worse: She stops pretending to be strong as soon as the love interest aka Alex Miller is around. He touches her and – BOOM – his touch suddenly is everything that's holding her together, that's making her strong. Without him, she couldn't survive anything. (That's pretty much quoted.)
・ The story didn't make SENSE. Literally NOTHING was explained. Every time the topic Ghost Slayers comes up, an explanation is left out. Even the most basic questions (what makes Kaelyn a Ghost Slayer, how did she end up becoming one, why is she so bad at slaying ghosts?) are left unanswered.
・ No, wait, it actually gets worse. Some questions are answered, and answered so badly that the book made even less sense. It was a mess. There were plotholes everywhere, giving me the feeling I was reading a first draft, not an arc.
・ The writing was bad as well. When I first started reading Ghost Slayer, I thought it was just a little bit too simple (especially considering Kaelyn is 21 yet behaves like a ten-year-old), but it really is bad. It's repetitive. There's just telling, not showing.
・ I didn't connect to any characters. Because of a) the bad writing, b) the bland characters, c) the gaping plotholes. Self-explanatory.
I'm sorry, but … I literally can't say anything good about this book. I could read it pretty quickly because of the simple-yet-really-bad writing, but in the end, it was a waste of my time. Don't repeat my mistake.
Ghost Slayer by Majanka Verstraete pretty much fulfills every YA cliché. While I still had some hopes when I started reading it, I found myself rolling my eyes more and more often towards the middle and the end of the book. It felt like a 2010 throwback … and at a bad one at that.
Things I did not enjoy:
・ The main character Kaelyn is a Mary Sue par excellence. She's got the green eyes and the dark hair and pretends to be super badass because she's a Ghost Slayer. Except she doesn't really slay ghosts, and every time she encounters one, she founds herself glued to the floor. A shame, considering she's been doing this for years.
・ Even worse: She stops pretending to be strong as soon as the love interest aka Alex Miller is around. He touches her and – BOOM – his touch suddenly is everything that's holding her together, that's making her strong. Without him, she couldn't survive anything. (That's pretty much quoted.)
・ The story didn't make SENSE. Literally NOTHING was explained. Every time the topic Ghost Slayers comes up, an explanation is left out. Even the most basic questions (what makes Kaelyn a Ghost Slayer, how did she end up becoming one, why is she so bad at slaying ghosts?) are left unanswered.
・ No, wait, it actually gets worse. Some questions are answered, and answered so badly that the book made even less sense. It was a mess. There were plotholes everywhere, giving me the feeling I was reading a first draft, not an arc.
・ The writing was bad as well. When I first started reading Ghost Slayer, I thought it was just a little bit too simple (especially considering Kaelyn is 21 yet behaves like a ten-year-old), but it really is bad. It's repetitive. There's just telling, not showing.
・ I didn't connect to any characters. Because of a) the bad writing, b) the bland characters, c) the gaping plotholes. Self-explanatory.
I'm sorry, but … I literally can't say anything good about this book. I could read it pretty quickly because of the simple-yet-really-bad writing, but in the end, it was a waste of my time. Don't repeat my mistake.