A review by waclements7
Feathers of Blood by Alice Ivinya
1.0
DNF at 71%
There are things that bothered me in the first book that just got worse in the second. Taking Chinese characteristics and names was bad enough, but then taking the written language as well? It makes absolutely no sense. They don’t _speak_ a different language, so why would they have a different written language—and it’s even mentioned that it’s not the characters of the alphabet. It’s sloppy world building to simply import a nationality.
Brianna is so incredibly angsty—the arguments she has with Jian are childish. She certainly doesn’t act like she’s 18, and he doesn’t act like he’s 24 and a general.
My interest in the spirit creatures waned, and wasn’t enough to keep reading.
There are things that bothered me in the first book that just got worse in the second. Taking Chinese characteristics and names was bad enough, but then taking the written language as well? It makes absolutely no sense. They don’t _speak_ a different language, so why would they have a different written language—and it’s even mentioned that it’s not the characters of the alphabet. It’s sloppy world building to simply import a nationality.
Brianna is so incredibly angsty—the arguments she has with Jian are childish. She certainly doesn’t act like she’s 18, and he doesn’t act like he’s 24 and a general.
My interest in the spirit creatures waned, and wasn’t enough to keep reading.