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A review by shadowgargoyle
Blood of Desiderium by Ali Stuebbe
2.0
Tries too hard
This book could have been fantastic. However, it really was not. First of all, the main characters name is Emma in a world were everyone has these fanciful high fantasy names. Secondly, things just always happened for the mc. She never solved problems..they just happened to get solved for her when she needed it to happen. No one knows about the creature in the well for 20 years?
Also, the writing. The writing was incredibly fluffy. The sentences became awkward. It was perfect for poetry or your English class writing assignment. But for a 500 page book it made everything clunky. A few times I think I snorted out loud.
High fantasy setting but with lots of modern day vernacular for no reason. Lots of metaphors. In fact, characters say checkmate.
We spend chapters going back and forth between characters and reading about the same thing with little actually getting done. Just a lot of filler. And a lot of telling and not showing.
I barely finished this book and I am upset with myself that I did because it was such a disappointing waste of time.
This book could have been fantastic. However, it really was not. First of all, the main characters name is Emma in a world were everyone has these fanciful high fantasy names. Secondly, things just always happened for the mc. She never solved problems..they just happened to get solved for her when she needed it to happen. No one knows about the creature in the well for 20 years?
Also, the writing. The writing was incredibly fluffy. The sentences became awkward. It was perfect for poetry or your English class writing assignment. But for a 500 page book it made everything clunky. A few times I think I snorted out loud.
High fantasy setting but with lots of modern day vernacular for no reason. Lots of metaphors. In fact, characters say checkmate.
We spend chapters going back and forth between characters and reading about the same thing with little actually getting done. Just a lot of filler. And a lot of telling and not showing.
I barely finished this book and I am upset with myself that I did because it was such a disappointing waste of time.