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A review by booksdogsandjess
The Sorrow King by Andersen Prunty
3.0
I tried, but maybe this was just not my bag?
If we broke the elements of the story into parts I got most of them, there is a teenage boy who is lonely and a bit depressed, got it, there is a pretty girl with a secret, got it,
there is a surge in teen suicide in the past few weeks, got it,
there is a realm called the Obscura where you can feel power and happiness, but is also connected to cloud formation….
Yes what? I just could not for whatever reason get into the flow of this book and fully ..understand what the Obscura was and the dynamics in play. This book is 211 pages and it took me 2 weeks to finish, I just did not get into it all.
Also there were bugs, I do not do bugs, they creep me the fuck out. There is a character Mary in the Sorrow King who at one point hears a scuttle and turns to see a substantial spider run and hide behind a box. The proper course of action is to not “try to ignore it”, that will not end well. My advice to Mary is a little more like this..
Spiders are not be trusted…ever
There is a story within the story that was cool, The Jackthief. It was very creepy. I like creepy and suspense, rather then out and out gross. Which was my issue with The Sorrow King just a bit too yucky for my tastes.
If we broke the elements of the story into parts I got most of them, there is a teenage boy who is lonely and a bit depressed, got it, there is a pretty girl with a secret, got it,
there is a surge in teen suicide in the past few weeks, got it,
there is a realm called the Obscura where you can feel power and happiness, but is also connected to cloud formation….
Yes what? I just could not for whatever reason get into the flow of this book and fully ..understand what the Obscura was and the dynamics in play. This book is 211 pages and it took me 2 weeks to finish, I just did not get into it all.
Also there were bugs, I do not do bugs, they creep me the fuck out. There is a character Mary in the Sorrow King who at one point hears a scuttle and turns to see a substantial spider run and hide behind a box. The proper course of action is to not “try to ignore it”, that will not end well. My advice to Mary is a little more like this..
Spiders are not be trusted…ever
There is a story within the story that was cool, The Jackthief. It was very creepy. I like creepy and suspense, rather then out and out gross. Which was my issue with The Sorrow King just a bit too yucky for my tastes.