A review by castorstarr
New Charity Blues by Camille Griep
3.0
3
I'm going to start this by just straight out saying that this book isn't what I expected it to be. This book is extremely YA, and I thought it was going to be much cooler and much more speculative, but it was more of a basic dystopia that occasionally borrowed references from The Trojan War.
If you're looking for a cool retelling of the Trojan War, don't read this book. But if you want a dystopia about magic and droughts, then this might be your thing. It might have been mine, if I hadn't been so let down by what I actually wanted it to be.
Some people are confused that there's magic in this, which is... hilarious. Because Cassandra is a main character. Y'all know what Cassandra's whole deal is, right? There's magic in every Greek story. That super didn't bother me, that's one of the only things that stayed in line with it being a "retelling" (though it really, really wasn't).
I didn't like the world, I feel like there were a lot of lost opportunities to talk about the elemental magic, the choice of using pathos via old memories when we, the readers, don't connect to it was a poor one, and this story ultimately is not going to stay with me,
I'm going to start this by just straight out saying that this book isn't what I expected it to be. This book is extremely YA, and I thought it was going to be much cooler and much more speculative, but it was more of a basic dystopia that occasionally borrowed references from The Trojan War.
If you're looking for a cool retelling of the Trojan War, don't read this book. But if you want a dystopia about magic and droughts, then this might be your thing. It might have been mine, if I hadn't been so let down by what I actually wanted it to be.
Some people are confused that there's magic in this, which is... hilarious. Because Cassandra is a main character. Y'all know what Cassandra's whole deal is, right? There's magic in every Greek story. That super didn't bother me, that's one of the only things that stayed in line with it being a "retelling" (though it really, really wasn't).
I didn't like the world, I feel like there were a lot of lost opportunities to talk about the elemental magic, the choice of using pathos via old memories when we, the readers, don't connect to it was a poor one, and this story ultimately is not going to stay with me,