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maxniko's review
2.0
The scenes lack details and depth. You're barely getting acquainted with what's going on before the scene changes and you're left with a half formed picture of what just happened. Books are supposed to exercise your imagination, but this one counts on your imagining FOR the book. It feels lazy.
(Written after reading maybe 10% of the book).
Ok, so I finished the book. It felt like a book adaptation of a Disney movie. Everything is simply too convenient for mostly everyone, and even though good people die or worse, all the bad guys get what they deserve. Happy ending. It reads like a children's book for adults. Oh, and the choice of words is questionable. If you're going to flood your book with words in other languages, please describe what they mean, otherwise you end up reading about how he took the thing under the other thing and used to blahblah the yet another thing. Also, in my opinion, this book failed miserably -if it even tried- to make me feel a connection to the characters. I never felt their despair, their sense of urgency, their joy; nothing. It's a shame, really. I guess that's what comes from judging a book by its cover.
It isn't uninteresting. The story kind of got me hooked, but for the most part I finished it because I don't like leaving books half-read. So, if you don't have anything better to read, I can recommend you a ton of better books.
(Written after reading maybe 10% of the book).
Ok, so I finished the book. It felt like a book adaptation of a Disney movie. Everything is simply too convenient for mostly everyone, and even though good people die or worse, all the bad guys get what they deserve. Happy ending. It reads like a children's book for adults. Oh, and the choice of words is questionable. If you're going to flood your book with words in other languages, please describe what they mean, otherwise you end up reading about how he took the thing under the other thing and used to blahblah the yet another thing. Also, in my opinion, this book failed miserably -if it even tried- to make me feel a connection to the characters. I never felt their despair, their sense of urgency, their joy; nothing. It's a shame, really. I guess that's what comes from judging a book by its cover.
It isn't uninteresting. The story kind of got me hooked, but for the most part I finished it because I don't like leaving books half-read. So, if you don't have anything better to read, I can recommend you a ton of better books.
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