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A review by lemon_
Feathers from the Sky by Jess Wisecup
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
2.0
This really did not work for me.
There’s a major twist that happens at the 95% mark that seemingly comes out of nowhere. For me, this twist felt really cheap and not properly set up at all.
But this book clearly was designed around this twist, and I found the vast majority of what came before it to be either incomprehensible or just plain boring. Both main characters I found very uninteresting and I didn’t feel any chemistry between them. In fact, all I could think for most of this book is how awful they are together and how tedious all their obnoxious back and forth became. This book could’ve been edited down 30% without any major plot points changing.
I’ve enjoyed this author’s previous books well enough so I’m surprised this one fell so flat for me.
edit:
now that i've thought about it more, I think this book would have been much better if it was shorter and told exclusively from Roman's POV. it would have made the question of if he should trust Gwyn much more interesting to ponder and to try to catch clues if she's lying or not.
instead, we are given about 50/50 POV of both main characters, and Gwyn's POV just doesn't fucking make sense. For a girl who apparently has a master plan and is lying her ass off in every scene, we are given almost none of her real thoughts (despite this being a first person POV, which I feel personaly gives more weight to internalized character thoughts). Intead, we get a ton of pages of off-topic rambling, nonstop comments on how hot Roman is and how attracted she is to him. I just don't believe it at all. it's why the twist in the end felt very unearned. There are zero clues throughout the book that Gwyn is lying her ass off, despite the fact that we spend half the book literally in her head. It's kind of a let down because a twist of this type could be super cool if you pull it off correctly, but the execution here was poor.
Also, this book has a real problem with pacing of dialogue. I had to go back multiple pages multiple times because character 1 will ask character 2 a question, and character 2 spends the next paragraphs or multiple pages in meandering tangents before they finally answer the question from multiple pages ago.
There’s a major twist that happens at the 95% mark that seemingly comes out of nowhere. For me, this twist felt really cheap and not properly set up at all.
But this book clearly was designed around this twist, and I found the vast majority of what came before it to be either incomprehensible or just plain boring. Both main characters I found very uninteresting and I didn’t feel any chemistry between them. In fact, all I could think for most of this book is how awful they are together and how tedious all their obnoxious back and forth became. This book could’ve been edited down 30% without any major plot points changing.
I’ve enjoyed this author’s previous books well enough so I’m surprised this one fell so flat for me.
edit:
now that i've thought about it more, I think this book would have been much better if it was shorter and told exclusively from Roman's POV. it would have made the question of if he should trust Gwyn much more interesting to ponder and to try to catch clues if she's lying or not.
instead, we are given about 50/50 POV of both main characters, and Gwyn's POV just doesn't fucking make sense. For a girl who apparently has a master plan and is lying her ass off in every scene, we are given almost none of her real thoughts (despite this being a first person POV, which I feel personaly gives more weight to internalized character thoughts). Intead, we get a ton of pages of off-topic rambling, nonstop comments on how hot Roman is and how attracted she is to him. I just don't believe it at all. it's why the twist in the end felt very unearned. There are zero clues throughout the book that Gwyn is lying her ass off, despite the fact that we spend half the book literally in her head. It's kind of a let down because a twist of this type could be super cool if you pull it off correctly, but the execution here was poor.
Also, this book has a real problem with pacing of dialogue. I had to go back multiple pages multiple times because character 1 will ask character 2 a question, and character 2 spends the next paragraphs or multiple pages in meandering tangents before they finally answer the question from multiple pages ago.