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pagesofmaria13 's review for:
Bone Crier's Moon
by Kathryn Purdie
Actual rating 2.5 stars
I have been deceived by a beautiful cover and the promise of a hate-to-love/fated romance trope. Perhaps it was that my expectations were too high, but I was very disappointed by this book. The world-building is phenomenal, I really loved the lore of the Bone Criers, but world-building is only going to get a book so far. What I found lacking were the characters and the romance, which is what I love most about a book.
Ailesse starts off strongly, but I lose interest in her the moment she meets her love interest.
Bastien—whose POVs are weighed down by his annoying friends—has the personality of a doormat, with nothing to him other than his drive for revenge and then his obsession for Ailesse.
Sabine, sweet soul, is the only character I truly loved in this book, but even her POVs begin to sound repetitive toward the middle of the book, in order to propel a plot that feels like is going nowhere. There is action for the sake of action, fight scenes, hunt scenes, dialogues that seem the repetition of themselves. It feels like reading the same thing over and over again—and for what? To give Ailesse and Bastien more time to fall in love? If we had at least seen that happening! Ailesse and Bastien go from beating each other up to suddenly being fascinated with each other. Ailesse is special, but how Bastien figured that out? No clue. Bastien is stubborn and proud and oh so dreamy, but what did he do for Ailesse to realize that? I am clueless.
The ending was…strange. Random.
It is a shame, truly. The world-building alone deserves five stars, but the rest that is within it was disappointing. The sequel seems to be set up in a way that the drama between the characters will be the main focus of the story, but one character is not enough for me to want to read a book. I doubt I’ll be picking it up.
I have been deceived by a beautiful cover and the promise of a hate-to-love/fated romance trope. Perhaps it was that my expectations were too high, but I was very disappointed by this book. The world-building is phenomenal, I really loved the lore of the Bone Criers, but world-building is only going to get a book so far. What I found lacking were the characters and the romance, which is what I love most about a book.
Ailesse starts off strongly, but I lose interest in her the moment she meets her love interest.
Bastien—whose POVs are weighed down by his annoying friends—has the personality of a doormat, with nothing to him other than his drive for revenge and then his obsession for Ailesse.
Sabine, sweet soul, is the only character I truly loved in this book, but even her POVs begin to sound repetitive toward the middle of the book, in order to propel a plot that feels like is going nowhere. There is action for the sake of action, fight scenes, hunt scenes, dialogues that seem the repetition of themselves. It feels like reading the same thing over and over again—and for what? To give Ailesse and Bastien more time to fall in love? If we had at least seen that happening! Ailesse and Bastien go from beating each other up to suddenly being fascinated with each other. Ailesse is special, but how Bastien figured that out? No clue. Bastien is stubborn and proud and oh so dreamy, but what did he do for Ailesse to realize that? I am clueless.
The ending was…strange. Random.
It is a shame, truly. The world-building alone deserves five stars, but the rest that is within it was disappointing. The sequel seems to be set up in a way that the drama between the characters will be the main focus of the story, but one character is not enough for me to want to read a book. I doubt I’ll be picking it up.