A review by the_alexeli
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

2.0

I wanted to like this book so much, but it felt like such a tangled mess. The plot in the book jumped in such sporadic and dramatic ways, it was hard to get a good momentum while reading. Everytime I would finally get in the groove of reading, the story would brake harshly and make a drastic turn. It ended up making such little sense. Which sucked, because I started out REALLY enjoying the magical story, and I like her writing style. Well..at least parts of it, and I know that makes no sense. I liked her sentences, but not always her paragraphs and chapters, if that makes sense.

Besides the haphazard plot, there wasn't much in it for me when it came to characterization, either. I felt just meh about almost every character, save for the ones I thoroughly hated, like Ivan.

In a whole, this story was just very one dimensional for me. It didn't have much depth to it, even if it did have some meaning.