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A review by mycupoftealcsw
Lament of the Wolf by C.A. Farran
Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.
**spoiler alert** DNFd at 28%
I almost DNFd this book even earlier because Lark was so frustrating (enough with the brooding, use your damn words and stop being so stupid) and because of Daciana and Kenna’s ridiculous and heavy-handed Beauty and the Beast side quest (not to mention that they have zero chemistry together - their interactions with every other character are far more interesting than their interactions with each other). Alistair and Langford not talking directly to each other also got real old, real fast. I tolerated it for a bit because that has always been their thing, but after a while enough was enough.
The charm of the first book was in the interaction of the group. With them all split up, it becomes really obvious how boring certain pairings are (Lark and Gavriel) and how inept they all are without each other. Generally, the first quarter of this book was pretty boring and/or annoying (other than the opening story of Demetria which I found pretty engaging). It’s mostly grown ass adults refusing to use their grown-up voices to actually deal with shit and preferring to brood and make dumb ass assumptions/choices instead. There is no real movement in the overall plot and most of the conflict/resolutions feel contrived or unearned. I mostly skimmed all of Lark’s chapters, paid a bit more attention to Lanford’s chapters (mainly because he was actually researching information relevant to the plot), and did a mixture of both with Daciana’s chapters.
Then things start happening but they all feel entirely unnecessary and out of character (like the great assassin Gavriel getting pretty easily kidnapped by bounty hunters and those same bounty hunters just leaving Lark entirely unharmed) or absolutely infuriating and not even slightly relevant to the larger plot (the level anger I felt at the completely needless mutilation of Langford-DNFd immediately).
I almost DNFd this book even earlier because Lark was so frustrating (enough with the brooding, use your damn words and stop being so stupid) and because of Daciana and Kenna’s ridiculous and heavy-handed Beauty and the Beast side quest (not to mention that they have zero chemistry together - their interactions with every other character are far more interesting than their interactions with each other). Alistair and Langford not talking directly to each other also got real old, real fast. I tolerated it for a bit because that has always been their thing, but after a while enough was enough.
The charm of the first book was in the interaction of the group. With them all split up, it becomes really obvious how boring certain pairings are (Lark and Gavriel) and how inept they all are without each other. Generally, the first quarter of this book was pretty boring and/or annoying (other than the opening story of Demetria which I found pretty engaging). It’s mostly grown ass adults refusing to use their grown-up voices to actually deal with shit and preferring to brood and make dumb ass assumptions/choices instead. There is no real movement in the overall plot and most of the conflict/resolutions feel contrived or unearned. I mostly skimmed all of Lark’s chapters, paid a bit more attention to Lanford’s chapters (mainly because he was actually researching information relevant to the plot), and did a mixture of both with Daciana’s chapters.
Then things start happening but they all feel entirely unnecessary and out of character (like the great assassin Gavriel getting pretty easily kidnapped by bounty hunters and those same bounty hunters just leaving Lark entirely unharmed) or absolutely infuriating and not even slightly relevant to the larger plot (the level anger I felt at the completely needless mutilation of Langford-DNFd immediately).