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A review by ambermarshall
Arcanum 101 by Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill
3.0
I'm definitely not one to accuse any book of ripping off another just because they share a premise (a school for gifted children - everyone says Harry Potter but nothing about X-Men with this one). This isn't my first time with the Secret World Chronicles, since I read another collection that I got in (maybe this same) Humble Bundle. My main takeaway is it's interesting but doesn't grab me enough. It was all right but not great.
I was a little annoyed with the random insertion of Spanish words in the middle of sentences. Do people really talk like that? All the people I know whose first language isn't English will only slip into their native language when trying to figure out what English word corresponds to what they're trying to say. They don't just throw it in there like punctuation. Maybe for words like "hermana" and "mamacita" because that's what he calls his sister, his mother, etc, but the rest of the time it's like "pick a random word to run through Google translate."
Tomas's arrogant macho 'tude turned me off, but that's just a personal taste thing.
Overall not intense or nuanced enough for my tastes.
I was a little annoyed with the random insertion of Spanish words in the middle of sentences. Do people really talk like that? All the people I know whose first language isn't English will only slip into their native language when trying to figure out what English word corresponds to what they're trying to say. They don't just throw it in there like punctuation. Maybe for words like "hermana" and "mamacita" because that's what he calls his sister, his mother, etc, but the rest of the time it's like "pick a random word to run through Google translate."
Tomas's arrogant macho 'tude turned me off, but that's just a personal taste thing.
Overall not intense or nuanced enough for my tastes.