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katiemulcahy122 's review for:
The Sapling Cage
by Margaret Killjoy
DID NOT FINISH: 54%
DNF at 54% because I wanted to like this so much but the damn thing won't end.
I couldn't get into the world building, some characters motivations felt really inconsistent, and things would happen in a way that put everything on the same level of importance so none of it mattered. I wanted to read about a trans witch hiding her identity to join this coven and save the dying trees, but it needed a few more rounds of editing or something.
Like, how can you have one characters saying:
"Some magicians serve magic. Some, like the blighters, I presume, force magic to serve them. The Order of the Vine does neither. Magic is neither our master nor our servant. We let it flow, and we work with it to do what we feel needs done. Magic runs free, throughout the world, for anyone to use. Blighters put it under lock and key."
And then someone else writing:
"I guess is probably said that on the envelope, above the super cool seal of the Knights of the King's Tower."
So while it's not the worst writing I've encountered, the best I could hope for with this book would be 3 stars, and at this point I just don't trust the plot to get me there.
I couldn't get into the world building, some characters motivations felt really inconsistent, and things would happen in a way that put everything on the same level of importance so none of it mattered. I wanted to read about a trans witch hiding her identity to join this coven and save the dying trees, but it needed a few more rounds of editing or something.
Like, how can you have one characters saying:
"Some magicians serve magic. Some, like the blighters, I presume, force magic to serve them. The Order of the Vine does neither. Magic is neither our master nor our servant. We let it flow, and we work with it to do what we feel needs done. Magic runs free, throughout the world, for anyone to use. Blighters put it under lock and key."
And then someone else writing:
"I guess is probably said that on the envelope, above the super cool seal of the Knights of the King's Tower."
So while it's not the worst writing I've encountered, the best I could hope for with this book would be 3 stars, and at this point I just don't trust the plot to get me there.