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A review by dani_reviews
Demon Princess by Kassandra Lynn
Did not finish book.
I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
DNF’d at 25%
Based on the other reviews on Goodreads, I’m in the minority on this, but this book just didn’t work for me.
For such a short book (162 pages), it took me forever to even make it 25%. That’s because I could only read a couple percent at a time before having to put the book down for a while. The story was rushed and underdeveloped in every aspect: plot, characters, world building, etc. The beginning left me reeling because a situation was introduced and not explained before the setting completely changed. I would have liked a bit more build-up of the demon world and who Adriana was as a person, what had happened to her father and brother and so on. All of the characters were two-dimensional, and I felt like I’d had them pinpointed rather quickly. I found myself rolling my eyes at everything. The book was written in first person present tense, which seems to be a trend amongst indie authors but actually works for very few stories. Finally, while the book wasn’t exactly riddled with errors like I’ve seen in other indie books, there were enough awkward sentences and tense problems to make my proofreader soul wither a bit.
DNF’d at 25%
Based on the other reviews on Goodreads, I’m in the minority on this, but this book just didn’t work for me.
For such a short book (162 pages), it took me forever to even make it 25%. That’s because I could only read a couple percent at a time before having to put the book down for a while. The story was rushed and underdeveloped in every aspect: plot, characters, world building, etc. The beginning left me reeling because a situation was introduced and not explained before the setting completely changed. I would have liked a bit more build-up of the demon world and who Adriana was as a person, what had happened to her father and brother and so on. All of the characters were two-dimensional, and I felt like I’d had them pinpointed rather quickly. I found myself rolling my eyes at everything. The book was written in first person present tense, which seems to be a trend amongst indie authors but actually works for very few stories. Finally, while the book wasn’t exactly riddled with errors like I’ve seen in other indie books, there were enough awkward sentences and tense problems to make my proofreader soul wither a bit.