A review by livinthebubble
Silk Fire by Zabé Ellor

Did not finish book. Stopped at 14%.
 I usually can get through at least until the 25% mark of a book before I call it quits. But this book just was so boring and I don't want to waste my time reading something that in the first 50 pages has not interested me in the least.

Writing

So exhausting to read, I fell asleep reading twice. There are extensive, detailed descriptions, hard-to-read names, long chapters...I had to read some sentences/paragraphs several times to understand, and at one point I just skipped the descriptions.

Names

I've never seen names that were this hard to read. All the names are really difficult names and I just skipped over them at one point because I couldn't be bothered. There's a guide to the pronunciation at the beginning but that did not help (how am I supposed to remember how to pronounce them all when I'm trying to get into the world?).

For example, Akizeké Shikishashir Dzaxashigé is so hard to even look at. Is that a name? Because most of the names have Dzaxashigé at the end. I just feel like character names should be easy to at least differentiate.

World

I felt like there were too many elements in this. Dinosaurs, dragons, technology, and magic make no sense together, in my opinion. I need some sort of logic. Also, the world wasn't very described and I have no clue what it's supposed to be like.

Main Character

Koré could've been a cool character, further into the book, but I just found him annoying.

Overall, I think this was just not for me. A book needs to interest me in the first 50 pages and this just didn't.

This ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.