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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.
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.