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Daughter of Black Lake by Cathy Marie Buchanan
1.0
I am not sure me and other goodreads members have read the same book.
I found this novel highly dissapointing. I wanted to like this book so, so badly, but I just could not get into it. painfully Slow pacing, with limited characterization. I found that I could not get attached to anyone in the book from the limited amount of characterization given. We were given zero atompshere, imagry or any real background. The swaping of the narratives was highly confusing and at least for me, took me awhile to realize that devout was Hobble's mother. I spent a majority of the book lost as to what was going on, or how anything was playing into the plot or confused and unclear as to where the plot was progressing. I felt like Hobble's "gift" was underplayed and felt almost pointless. Their could have been SO MUCH MORE that could have been done with that. Characters were bland and most of them served no real point to the overall plot. This being my major complaint, nothing substantial happened from begining to end. The revelation of the big "secret" could be seen from miles away. Even Devout's storyline was stale and pointless. I'm not sayig that I would like non-stop action but anything to help progress. Their was no resolution, just nothing. The immpending threat of The Romans fizzled out into nothing. I took nothing away from this book. save yourself the headache. If you are into reading about this time period may I suggest "Illuminations," "The passion of Dolsa." or "Pillars of Earth." I think a history textbook was more exciting than this.
I found this novel highly dissapointing. I wanted to like this book so, so badly, but I just could not get into it. painfully Slow pacing, with limited characterization. I found that I could not get attached to anyone in the book from the limited amount of characterization given. We were given zero atompshere, imagry or any real background. The swaping of the narratives was highly confusing and at least for me, took me awhile to realize that devout was Hobble's mother. I spent a majority of the book lost as to what was going on, or how anything was playing into the plot or confused and unclear as to where the plot was progressing. I felt like Hobble's "gift" was underplayed and felt almost pointless. Their could have been SO MUCH MORE that could have been done with that. Characters were bland and most of them served no real point to the overall plot. This being my major complaint, nothing substantial happened from begining to end. The revelation of the big "secret" could be seen from miles away. Even Devout's storyline was stale and pointless. I'm not sayig that I would like non-stop action but anything to help progress. Their was no resolution, just nothing. The immpending threat of The Romans fizzled out into nothing. I took nothing away from this book. save yourself the headache. If you are into reading about this time period may I suggest "Illuminations," "The passion of Dolsa." or "Pillars of Earth." I think a history textbook was more exciting than this.