mamabookwyrm's review
2.0
I really wanted to like Arranged. I’ve been fascinated by faeries since I was a child and I love reading books about them, fiction or otherwise. I’m also a huge fan of the fantasy genre. However, there’s one thing that the fantasy genre needs and that is world building. From the start I found myself scratching my head confused about the when and where’s of this story. There’s a general lack of world building that leaves the reader with a vague sense of when and where this story is taking place that detracts from the story, at least for me.
Character wise, at first I found it difficult to connect with Tulupea and there were times I still found her grating. But I found her commitment to what she was doing admirable. Michael, I found flat. There wasn’t much to him besides indecisiveness and a past kindness to Tulupea’s mother. Speaking of her mother, I can’t stand her. She’s shady to me.
The novella has a lot of potential, I just feel like it’s still unfinished. It reads a lot like a draft or a beta read to me. It needs some fleshing out with details about things like the war and how it lead to the extinction of the human race and the earth, how the magical creatures appeared or were they always there, etc.
Character wise, at first I found it difficult to connect with Tulupea and there were times I still found her grating. But I found her commitment to what she was doing admirable.
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And the fact that she got attached to her children despite her mother’s constant insisting that they were not in fact her children.The novella has a lot of potential, I just feel like it’s still unfinished. It reads a lot like a draft or a beta read to me. It needs some fleshing out with details about things like the war and how it lead to the extinction of the human race and the earth, how the magical creatures appeared or were they always there, etc.
innerfangirl03's review
1.0
I was given this book for free by NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
I read this a while ago and was so confused by it, enough to forget to leave a review. It felt scattered to me and you were thrown into the story without much context. I’m not sure if I just wasn’t in the right head space for it or what, but I really wasn’t feeling this book.
I read this a while ago and was so confused by it, enough to forget to leave a review. It felt scattered to me and you were thrown into the story without much context. I’m not sure if I just wasn’t in the right head space for it or what, but I really wasn’t feeling this book.
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