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A review by reaganshoe
Heart of the Sea by Moriah Chavis
2.0
I love myself a good pirate book but this book struggled with both the writing and the characters. The author's talent is clearly there but there's a lot of room for improvement.
Pros:
- Issa and Cyrus have awesome powers that drew me in.
- Controlling water as a super power is literally my dream and severely underutilized in fiction.
- Many descriptions in scenes were beautifully written. The author definitely has talent.
Cons:
- Writing issues: Fight scenes were ridiculous, dialogue was rough, continuity struggled, plot points were ridiculously convoluted, and the characters were 2D and lacked variety.
- Everything in the first 15% of the book could have been very obviously and easily handled with a polite conversation rather than resorting to pointless violence and schemes.
- Characters did a lot of stupid things like randomly (and dangerously) changing their minds on major decisions mid-adventure. Example:
- Commodore Norrington's quote kept coming to mind as I read: “you are without a doubt the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of”.
I’m thankful for the opportunity to get an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Pros:
- Issa and Cyrus have awesome powers that drew me in.
- Controlling water as a super power is literally my dream and severely underutilized in fiction.
- Many descriptions in scenes were beautifully written. The author definitely has talent.
Cons:
- Writing issues: Fight scenes were ridiculous, dialogue was rough, continuity struggled, plot points were ridiculously convoluted, and the characters were 2D and lacked variety.
- Everything in the first 15% of the book could have been very obviously and easily handled with a polite conversation rather than resorting to pointless violence and schemes.
- Characters did a lot of stupid things like randomly (and dangerously) changing their minds on major decisions mid-adventure. Example:
Spoiler
Cyrus wears magic sand on his ears to protect himself from sirens. They land on the siren island and he soon decides that the magic sand is inconvenient for their task and he would rather take his chance with the sirens and jeopardize the whole mission. Why? Why not just refuse the sand in the first place? Why wear it for the least dangerous part of the trip just to take it off just when things get dicey? Sounds like a waste of magic sand to me.- Commodore Norrington's quote kept coming to mind as I read: “you are without a doubt the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of”.
I’m thankful for the opportunity to get an ARC in exchange for an honest review.