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A review by mapmurph
White Stag by Kara Barbieri
3.0
I received an advanced copy of this book. Thank you NetGalley, Kara Barbieri, and St. Martin's Press for allowing me the opportunity to check this book out before it is published.
There were some weak points in the story. I couldn't understand how Janneke was so powerful and managed to defeat the amount of goblins that she did. There was a lot of "goblins are very powerful/fast/strong/etc" but a human managed to dispatch several, with little to no intervention from another goblin. I feel like Janneke's background wasn't fleshed out very well towards the beginning of the book. I also felt like she hated all goblins for the first half of the book. Then, all of a sudden, she decided that she liked goblins, one in particular.
Other than some of the weak points in the story that I noted, I felt that the book was enjoyable. Janneke went through quite a bit to get to the point she's at when the story begins. This is definitely a book for older teens into adults just because there is a graphic nature to some of Janneke's story.
There were some weak points in the story. I couldn't understand how Janneke was so powerful and managed to defeat the amount of goblins that she did. There was a lot of "goblins are very powerful/fast/strong/etc" but a human managed to dispatch several, with little to no intervention from another goblin. I feel like Janneke's background wasn't fleshed out very well towards the beginning of the book. I also felt like she hated all goblins for the first half of the book. Then, all of a sudden, she decided that she liked goblins, one in particular.
Other than some of the weak points in the story that I noted, I felt that the book was enjoyable. Janneke went through quite a bit to get to the point she's at when the story begins. This is definitely a book for older teens into adults just because there is a graphic nature to some of Janneke's story.