A review by pumpkinpie4me
Shadowcry by Jenna Burtenshaw
2.0
Looking back, I feel like Shadowcry was such a waste of time. Over one hundred pages of exposition and then an info-dump conversation and all the while Kate Winters is a flat character who just does what everyone asks her. I noted when she showed her first emotion: page 213.
The author has some skill - the writing is vivid and detailed. Some of the concepts are great, such as the veil and the Skilled with their blackening eyes and Da'ru and her business. But other concepts irritated me. The Walker stuff was introduced halfway through and it felt forced. The city of Fume confused me, I thought it was one way but the author wrote something else and still it ended up being something different.
The names also bothered me. Some were cool like Silas, Da'ru, Kalen, and Artemis and then there was Kate, Edgar, and Tom.
Overall, not a memorable book.
The author has some skill - the writing is vivid and detailed. Some of the concepts are great, such as the veil and the Skilled with their blackening eyes and Da'ru and her business. But other concepts irritated me. The Walker stuff was introduced halfway through and it felt forced. The city of Fume confused me, I thought it was one way but the author wrote something else and still it ended up being something different.
The names also bothered me. Some were cool like Silas, Da'ru, Kalen, and Artemis and then there was Kate, Edgar, and Tom.
Overall, not a memorable book.