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kirchenberth 's review for:
Tarnished City
by Vic James
I love the plot idea, but the execution was severely lacking. The first book was entertaining, though choppily written. I had hoped this would have been remedied in the next book. Nope.
-Too many characters and told from too many perspectives. No emotional connection could be made with any character because you do not get to spend more than a handful of pages with anyone.
-Too much "telling" rather than showing.
-Poor world building, info-dumping only when it is convenient to the plot.
-Personal pet peeve: always saying each characters first and last name. Silyen Jardine. Bouda Matravers. Luke Hadley. Maybe if you focused on 3 characters instead of 30, the readers wouldn't need to be reminded who they are all the time.
-Uneven pacing. It definitely suffers from 2nd book syndrome. Nothing happens until the last 50 pages.
Disappointing. Won't be continuing this series.
-Too many characters and told from too many perspectives. No emotional connection could be made with any character because you do not get to spend more than a handful of pages with anyone.
-Too much "telling" rather than showing.
-Poor world building, info-dumping only when it is convenient to the plot.
-Personal pet peeve: always saying each characters first and last name. Silyen Jardine. Bouda Matravers. Luke Hadley. Maybe if you focused on 3 characters instead of 30, the readers wouldn't need to be reminded who they are all the time.
-Uneven pacing. It definitely suffers from 2nd book syndrome. Nothing happens until the last 50 pages.
Disappointing. Won't be continuing this series.