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A review by everybookadoorway
Kindling by Traci Chee
I really liked the whole concept of this story, but unfortunately it just didn’t work for me which is a shame as I really wanted to love this one.
The second person POV immediately threw me off as I’ve never read a book from this perspective before, and now after reading this book, I don’t think I ever will again. I also think that I just wasn’t able to keep up with the amount of characters that we had to follow. There were seven main characters along with side characters and I felt like most of them just kind of ended up blurring together. I found it hard to differentiate each of their personalities, and I struggled to really get invested in any of them. There were two or three characters that stood out to me more than the others, but I still found it difficult to connect to them and their personal stories. And because I was so lost with the characters, I found it really hard to engage with the plot, so I unfortunately just didn’t really care about what was happening. At somewhere around the halfway mark, I started to loose interest and it ended up taking me so long to finish because it just started to feel like a chore to get through.
Even though I didn’t love this book like I’d hoped, I do think that there are a lot of people who will! So if Kindling sounds like something you could enjoy, don’t let my review discourage you. If you’re looking for a sad book with swords and sapphics, then this one might be for you!
Thank you to Harper360YA for the ARC.
The second person POV immediately threw me off as I’ve never read a book from this perspective before, and now after reading this book, I don’t think I ever will again. I also think that I just wasn’t able to keep up with the amount of characters that we had to follow. There were seven main characters along with side characters and I felt like most of them just kind of ended up blurring together. I found it hard to differentiate each of their personalities, and I struggled to really get invested in any of them. There were two or three characters that stood out to me more than the others, but I still found it difficult to connect to them and their personal stories. And because I was so lost with the characters, I found it really hard to engage with the plot, so I unfortunately just didn’t really care about what was happening. At somewhere around the halfway mark, I started to loose interest and it ended up taking me so long to finish because it just started to feel like a chore to get through.
Even though I didn’t love this book like I’d hoped, I do think that there are a lot of people who will! So if Kindling sounds like something you could enjoy, don’t let my review discourage you. If you’re looking for a sad book with swords and sapphics, then this one might be for you!
Thank you to Harper360YA for the ARC.