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not_a_wally 's review for:
In the Forests of the Night
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
1.5 stars
Atwater-Rhodes was 13 when she wrote this book and boy can you really really tell. It reads like bad vampire fan fiction. The writing is eye-rollingly pretentious in that very special way that only "deep" young teens can be. I don't mean to shit all over a kid, obviously it's very impressive that someone so young wrote something someone deemed worthy of publishing, but damn this book is bad. It isn't so terrible that it physically hurt me, but I absolutely will not be spending money on the many sequels it has spawned. It's a bummer too, because this was a favorite of mine when I was a kid. Ah well, not all childhood favorites live up to your memories of them.
Atwater-Rhodes was 13 when she wrote this book and boy can you really really tell. It reads like bad vampire fan fiction. The writing is eye-rollingly pretentious in that very special way that only "deep" young teens can be. I don't mean to shit all over a kid, obviously it's very impressive that someone so young wrote something someone deemed worthy of publishing, but damn this book is bad. It isn't so terrible that it physically hurt me, but I absolutely will not be spending money on the many sequels it has spawned. It's a bummer too, because this was a favorite of mine when I was a kid. Ah well, not all childhood favorites live up to your memories of them.