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A review by romireads
Come To Dust by Bracken MacLeod
5.0
After reading the prologue I thought this book was going to be a heart-wrecking one – an emotional rollercoaster. Everything was so very lovely at the start of Mitch’s and Sophie’s story, that the total destruction of my heart could be the only possible outcome of it all. I was right, but not in the way I had hoped. Yes, the start – Sophie’s dying – was very sad and it broke my heart, but the rest of the story was just so-so. Thrilling, but not super thrilling. Sad, but not super sad. I had hoped to shed at least one tear or to almost fall off my seat because it was so exciting to read, but alas, that didn’t happen.
Anyhow – I loved MacLeod’s writing style. I can’t pinpoint what it was exactly, but I think it was the lack of dialogue. Most of the writing was descriptions of events or surroundings. I’m not one to love endless descriptions of surroundings, which was sometimes the case in Come to Dust. These only take me out of the actual story, while I try to visualise what’s being described. But despite these elaborate descriptions MacLeod’s writing style was very calm and mysterious. At the start he describes Mitch in a way that I thought to know exactly who he was. I thought him to be a timid and shy person, which he is, but only because of his past. Another thing that had me hooked to the story was the way Sophie dies (the blurb already says that Sophie will die, so no spoilers there). She doesn’t only die, which was SO sad, but the way she dies was also highly suspicious!
All in all, the short chapters make Come to Dust a thrilling and fast read! If you like supernatural stories that involve walking dead, I’d highly recommend you read this!
* This book was included in The Nocturnal Reader’s Box of July 2017 *
Anyhow – I loved MacLeod’s writing style. I can’t pinpoint what it was exactly, but I think it was the lack of dialogue. Most of the writing was descriptions of events or surroundings. I’m not one to love endless descriptions of surroundings, which was sometimes the case in Come to Dust. These only take me out of the actual story, while I try to visualise what’s being described. But despite these elaborate descriptions MacLeod’s writing style was very calm and mysterious. At the start he describes Mitch in a way that I thought to know exactly who he was. I thought him to be a timid and shy person, which he is, but only because of his past. Another thing that had me hooked to the story was the way Sophie dies (the blurb already says that Sophie will die, so no spoilers there). She doesn’t only die, which was SO sad, but the way she dies was also highly suspicious!
All in all, the short chapters make Come to Dust a thrilling and fast read! If you like supernatural stories that involve walking dead, I’d highly recommend you read this!
* This book was included in The Nocturnal Reader’s Box of July 2017 *