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Draw Down the Moon by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
Thank you to Wednesday books for an ARC!
DNF
First, I have only read one other book by these authors, and that didn’t go well because it was more sci-fi, so I hoped that this one being fantasy would be more to my liking.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t. While the concept was an interesting concept, what kept holding me up was the writing. I was not vibing with the writing style at all. Despite the characters all being eighteen, this read much younger than that, more towards a middle grade audience than a young adult one.
I love prose and descriptors, I just felt that the way it was written in this book did not work for me. I also struggled to get into the characters as they kept falling flat, they didn’t feel like there was a lot going on with them.
Honestly, I hate to say it, I was cringing as I read this, and as much as I wanted to continue this book, I couldn’t. It just wasn’t for me.
If you love magical academies you might enjoy this book!
Death Rattle by Carter Pugh
2.75
Thank you to the author for a copy of this book!
I found the main character, Clarke, a very relatable thirty-year old. I enjoyed the quirks that Pugh endowed her with. I felt that they made her a more realistic character. I thought that there were some amusing moments in the book itself, but I did feel that every other character wasn’t nearly fleshed out enough to make them interesting.
This is a relatively short book, and while the concept itself was interesting, I felt that the world building was lacking, and as I said previously, the other characters weren’t fleshed out.
I found this book an easy read, the writing style was simple and a breeze to get through. I love a good murder mystery, but I just found the runup to it awkward in some aspects. Like the pacing wasn’t working for me.
I think if parts of this were more fleshed out that it may have worked better. We go from a lot of telling about Clarke’s background to the mystery, to it being solved, and the “fantasy” aspect didn’t play a huge part, but is clearly going to play a part later.
This book definitely had potential – it just didn’t hit the nail on the head for me.