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A review by lyakimov
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
3.0
I felt like this book just went on and on and on. I think that this book had a huge amount of potential in the beginning but I was not a fan of how the plot progressed after 30% in. I was just underwhelmed. There was so much that could have happened that didn’t make it to the page.
The romance really caused a lot of disconnect for me in the last half of the book. Zelie and Inan had no chemistry and only knew each other for 2 days before they started falling in love. The love, the betrayal, all just seemed so…hollow? It was disappointing to say the least. We could have had an impressive progression in Amari and Zelie’s friendship but it was diluted to fit the (pointless) romance.
Probably the biggest thing that disconnected me from the novel is that, when I was listening to the audiobook, the three POVs blended together. When the chapters changed, there were so many times when I lost track of whose POV it actually was. I felt like none of them had individual voices and they just had mostly the same inner voice. I was barely able to differentiate them so I felt pretty disconnected by that.
The romance really caused a lot of disconnect for me in the last half of the book. Zelie and Inan had no chemistry and only knew each other for 2 days before they started falling in love. The love, the betrayal, all just seemed so…hollow? It was disappointing to say the least. We could have had an impressive progression in Amari and Zelie’s friendship but it was diluted to fit the (pointless) romance.
Probably the biggest thing that disconnected me from the novel is that, when I was listening to the audiobook, the three POVs blended together. When the chapters changed, there were so many times when I lost track of whose POV it actually was. I felt like none of them had individual voices and they just had mostly the same inner voice. I was barely able to differentiate them so I felt pretty disconnected by that.