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A review by ashleylm
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
2.0
Sadly, it just didn't grab me, and I like Watchmaker a lot. It's beautifully written in terms of individual sentence, but the characterization, setting, plot, etc., left me cold. I stopped reading at the 140 page mark, as there are hundreds of other books on my shelf, and the likelihood is greater than 80% that I'll prefer any randomly plucked one to this.
I was also disappointed because I'd been misled by the cover art ... I gathered this was about time travel, but interpreted the spiralling stairs as time travel within time travel, something quite twisty, when really they're just the steps of a lighthouse, and the time travel aspect is very narrowly proscribed.
(I was also hoping for fun! and instead got slow and depressed!)
So it was not the book I wanted it to be, but I have not given up on the author, just this instance of her work.
P.S. Really liked The 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and can see very little resemblance between that fast-paced thrill ride of a book (if that book was Star Tours, this is King Arthur's Carousel.)
5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful.
I was also disappointed because I'd been misled by the cover art ... I gathered this was about time travel, but interpreted the spiralling stairs as time travel within time travel, something quite twisty, when really they're just the steps of a lighthouse, and the time travel aspect is very narrowly proscribed.
(I was also hoping for fun! and instead got slow and depressed!)
So it was not the book I wanted it to be, but I have not given up on the author, just this instance of her work.
P.S. Really liked The 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and can see very little resemblance between that fast-paced thrill ride of a book (if that book was Star Tours, this is King Arthur's Carousel.)
5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful.