A review by local_hat
A Decline in Prophets by Sulari Gentill
Did not finish book. Stopped at 66%.
It's. So. Glacially. Slow. And so much is taken up with rich person faffing about and nonsense. Allegedly the hero and his friends are leftist enough to have "gotten in trouble with the fascists" but we don't actually see any of that on the page? There's a lot of keeping up appearances and "let's hide the nudes so we're respectable" stuff though. There's allegedly a mystery we're investigating but there doesn't seem to be a lot of investigating happening.
Also the hero and his male friends are one big muddle of young wealthy dude, even after it says one came from poorer circumstances. And they're all referred to as "the poet" or similar. I know who "the sculptress" is because she's the only woman in the group. I could not tell you the rest of them.
I just cannot do it.
Also the blurb is wrong? And misleading; that death is not the first we see AND it doesn't happen until halfway through the book.
Also the hero and his male friends are one big muddle of young wealthy dude, even after it says one came from poorer circumstances. And they're all referred to as "the poet" or similar. I know who "the sculptress" is because she's the only woman in the group. I could not tell you the rest of them.
I just cannot do it.
Also the blurb is wrong? And misleading; that death is not the first we see AND it doesn't happen until halfway through the book.