A review by thedragonwolf
West by Edith Pattou

3.0

Was this book necessary? No. Was it cute? I guess. In terms of writing I had the same problems as the first one: a lot of summary, a lot of passive language, I was told a lot of things that I wish I would've seen play out instead. This style of writing is fine on a fairytale or something more akin to a short story or a novella, but 500 pages of it? Sometimes I felt like I was reading the Wikipedia summary instead of the book itself. In terms of the story itself, it felt like more or less the same thing as the first book. I didn't really find much development of the characters beyond the people they already were at the end of book one. And truth be told, I felt like the writing style prevented me from actually connecting with the characters.