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A review by zatannacomic
Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas
Did not finish book. Stopped at 16%.
I thought this was going to be an amazing As a buddy read as this seemed a hilarious bad book to read with a friend. However it was fun for about 100 pages, because then reality set in and you still had to read the other 400 pages. This book is genuinely the biggest waste of time I’ve ever laid my eyes on.
The writing is childish and unedited. This has to be a first draft… The story in this book… It is a mess that I won’t try to describe, because it makes me speechless. The choices made in this book make for some of the worst i’ve ever read. There are immense leaps of logic. The main character is (romantically?) obsessed with a mathematician born in 1755 - he is not a character in this book, to be clear. Somehow this book is set in 2090, but nothing in this set this apart from the current times. World building? Non-existent. Everything is happening and anything can happen. It makes so little sense, that nothing is surprising.
There are no good characters. Alexis is genuinely the worst. She is sarcastic in every sentence she had said or thought, which makes her annoying. The brackets with her sarcastic thoughts inserted in the middle of sentences are so irritating. Despite being a victim of child abuse, being blind and deaf at one side and being homeless since 11, she somehow finished high school without issue, is a math genius and knew enough Latin to write a essay on quantum mechanics in the language. I am in shock that this book has an average of 3.8… on the storygraph.
The writing is childish and unedited. This has to be a first draft… The story in this book… It is a mess that I won’t try to describe, because it makes me speechless. The choices made in this book make for some of the worst i’ve ever read. There are immense leaps of logic. The main character is (romantically?) obsessed with a mathematician born in 1755 - he is not a character in this book, to be clear. Somehow this book is set in 2090, but nothing in this set this apart from the current times. World building? Non-existent. Everything is happening and anything can happen. It makes so little sense, that nothing is surprising.
There are no good characters. Alexis is genuinely the worst. She is sarcastic in every sentence she had said or thought, which makes her annoying. The brackets with her sarcastic thoughts inserted in the middle of sentences are so irritating. Despite being a victim of child abuse, being blind and deaf at one side and being homeless since 11, she somehow finished high school without issue, is a math genius and knew enough Latin to write a essay on quantum mechanics in the language. I am in shock that this book has an average of 3.8… on the storygraph.