A review by skinnercolin221
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
3.0
Favorite quote: "Hush now. It'll be alright. It does no good to worry over what's already happened. What matters is now. The past and the future are both beyond our reach.. You have to think hard about the very thing before you dear. Nothing else. To think too long on what might happen is a fool's business…even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire.”
Maybe about a 3.5? I don’t know, while there are parts that are beautiful and moving (I shed some tears), it had some major issues.
Positives: It’s a constant adventure and every chapter leads you to wonder what happens in the next one, the meaning is deep, you can feel the warmth of family in it, and it can be funny.
Negatives (for me): it took too long to get into as the first few chapters are just a bunch of poorly made up words (I can see enjoying the silliness of this too though) with a ton of footnotes to learn their meaning (I get some people enjoy them - just not my cup of tea), the writing feels like a stream of consciousness rather than being organized and re-worked (it does seem to improve through out as the author grows as a writer), some stuff is trying to be funny but isn’t at all, at least not to me: “he had no name and his name was gnag the nameless”, the plot of the kids getting in trouble and getting saved by one of two characters is recycled at least 5 times to the point I thought “they’re gonna go get in trouble… the kids will get beat up but then saved by ____ again.” which reminds me that the whole plot was too predictable - I knew what the jewels were and the other big reveal less than halfway through the book BUT that didn’t stop me from enjoying it when it was revealed!
Maybe about a 3.5? I don’t know, while there are parts that are beautiful and moving (I shed some tears), it had some major issues.
Positives: It’s a constant adventure and every chapter leads you to wonder what happens in the next one, the meaning is deep, you can feel the warmth of family in it, and it can be funny.
Negatives (for me): it took too long to get into as the first few chapters are just a bunch of poorly made up words (I can see enjoying the silliness of this too though) with a ton of footnotes to learn their meaning (I get some people enjoy them - just not my cup of tea), the writing feels like a stream of consciousness rather than being organized and re-worked (it does seem to improve through out as the author grows as a writer), some stuff is trying to be funny but isn’t at all, at least not to me: “he had no name and his name was gnag the nameless”, the plot of the kids getting in trouble and getting saved by one of two characters is recycled at least 5 times to the point I thought “they’re gonna go get in trouble… the kids will get beat up but then saved by ____ again.” which reminds me that the whole plot was too predictable - I knew what the jewels were and the other big reveal less than halfway through the book BUT that didn’t stop me from enjoying it when it was revealed!