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A review by malorisanthony
Kiss the Fae by Natalia Jaster
2.0
I read a review from someone else that used the definition “purple prose” and I couldn’t figure out how to put into words that the writing was so bad. If you don’t know what purple prose is:
“is overly embellished language that serves little meaningful purpose in a piece. It’s characterized by strings of multisyllabic words, run-on sentences, and blocks of unyielding text. Universally discouraged by all manner of writing experts, purple prose slows the pace, muddles the content, and can lose the reader entirely.”
The writing it had me DNFing this book twice. I physically could not get through it. I consider myself a pretty fast reader & this really shouldn’t have taken me as long as it did. I even loved the plot for this book. I thought the world building was decent. I liked the main characters and felt they were interesting. I even loved the ending. But I could not sit through and read all of the text I found myself skipping long chunks of info dumping and getting to the dialogue because it was just too much!
I honestly wouldn’t even know where to begin to describe back to you without spoiling anything the plot of this book. Seems like this might be how the rest of them are written which is a shame because I’m intrigued how the other sisters faired in the challenge. I did read this on kindle unlimited so I’m glad I didn’t buy it because I’ll never read it again.
“is overly embellished language that serves little meaningful purpose in a piece. It’s characterized by strings of multisyllabic words, run-on sentences, and blocks of unyielding text. Universally discouraged by all manner of writing experts, purple prose slows the pace, muddles the content, and can lose the reader entirely.”
The writing it had me DNFing this book twice. I physically could not get through it. I consider myself a pretty fast reader & this really shouldn’t have taken me as long as it did. I even loved the plot for this book. I thought the world building was decent. I liked the main characters and felt they were interesting. I even loved the ending. But I could not sit through and read all of the text I found myself skipping long chunks of info dumping and getting to the dialogue because it was just too much!
I honestly wouldn’t even know where to begin to describe back to you without spoiling anything the plot of this book. Seems like this might be how the rest of them are written which is a shame because I’m intrigued how the other sisters faired in the challenge. I did read this on kindle unlimited so I’m glad I didn’t buy it because I’ll never read it again.