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gabriellecarolina 's review for:
Seraphina
by Rachel Hartman
I finished, finally.
I'm very surprised that I didn't give up on this much sooner, but I suppose there were enough intriguing elements to keep me invested, though by the end I was a tad annoyed. The whole monster/love angle is so much more heartfelt and intense than the whole political mystery, which lacked the proper build-up needed to raise the stakes, and it was only fully realized in the last twenty pages, or so!
I don't have a dislike for any of the characters, besides Bassind and Corogni, but I didn't have strong feelings for any of the characters except for Fruit Bat, who is too darn endearing and Orma, who embodied the transformative concept that was the only redeeming quality of this book.
Ultimately I think that pages upon pages could have been cut, it dragged and drooped and there was no romance, no insta-love, just, suddenly, Seraphina decides she's in love... okay, then, I am not invested in your happily ever after, only in the pages that separate the reader from it.
I'm very surprised that I didn't give up on this much sooner, but I suppose there were enough intriguing elements to keep me invested, though by the end I was a tad annoyed. The whole monster/love angle is so much more heartfelt and intense than the whole political mystery, which lacked the proper build-up needed to raise the stakes, and it was only fully realized in the last twenty pages, or so!
I don't have a dislike for any of the characters, besides Bassind and Corogni, but I didn't have strong feelings for any of the characters except for Fruit Bat, who is too darn endearing and Orma, who embodied the transformative concept that was the only redeeming quality of this book.
Ultimately I think that pages upon pages could have been cut, it dragged and drooped and there was no romance, no insta-love, just, suddenly, Seraphina decides she's in love... okay, then, I am not invested in your happily ever after, only in the pages that separate the reader from it.