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A review by thomas_hense
Dreams of the Dying by Nicolas Lietzau
2.0
This was probably the most excited I had ever been about a book, which may have also contributed to my greatest disappointment.
To begin with, there was far too much information given about the characters and world. The magic/fantasy was explained so extensively that at times it felt I was reading a medical journal - at what point does magic become science or science fiction?
Character relationships felt adolescent, flat and scripted, in other words, fake. Modern day dialogue and gestures felt completely out of place in an old world setting, for example "can of worms", "crawled up his esophagus", "shagged", "ditched in the worse way", "cadavers", "wanna", pinky swears, "given him the finger", etc.
My review is based on the first 53% of the book. I just could not continue reading it after that.
To begin with, there was far too much information given about the characters and world. The magic/fantasy was explained so extensively that at times it felt I was reading a medical journal - at what point does magic become science or science fiction?
Character relationships felt adolescent, flat and scripted, in other words, fake. Modern day dialogue and gestures felt completely out of place in an old world setting, for example "can of worms", "crawled up his esophagus", "shagged", "ditched in the worse way", "cadavers", "wanna", pinky swears, "given him the finger", etc.
My review is based on the first 53% of the book. I just could not continue reading it after that.