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A review by theemptybookshelf
The Knight of the Moon by Gregory Kontaxis
1.0
I really wanted to like this novella before ever opening it and I think that comes down to judging a book by its cover. Surprisingly though it isn’t this novella that I prejudged, but the second novel in The Dance of the Light series, The Fall of the Giants. If you haven’t seen that epic cover go and check it out after this review. All that is to say that I was expecting the prose to match the pretty picture and that’s my fault.
So let’s get into it. This is my second one star rating of March Madness and if this is the bar for what that is then the last book I gave this score should be three stars instead. From the very first page the writing was clunky and awkward. It felt completely unedited, even though it had clearly been through a proofreader as it was error free. There was barely any two sentences strung together that didn’t make me cringe. I absolutely hate to be this negative, especially about an indie book, but ouch this one really hurt my feelings.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but the decisions being made and the way characters acted felt so wrong. I really didn’t like the whole romance angle – again that’s probably a me thing – and the way that John and Nemesis interacted and fell for each other was not doing it for me. The plot, while intriguing, fell flat with some odd choices.
I didn’t like anything about The Knight of the Moon and it saddens me that I have removed Gregory’s books from my TBR shelf. I don’t have enough time in the day to push on through something that doesn’t work for me. But this might be the perfect story for you, who’s to say?
Rating: 1/5
So let’s get into it. This is my second one star rating of March Madness and if this is the bar for what that is then the last book I gave this score should be three stars instead. From the very first page the writing was clunky and awkward. It felt completely unedited, even though it had clearly been through a proofreader as it was error free. There was barely any two sentences strung together that didn’t make me cringe. I absolutely hate to be this negative, especially about an indie book, but ouch this one really hurt my feelings.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but the decisions being made and the way characters acted felt so wrong. I really didn’t like the whole romance angle – again that’s probably a me thing – and the way that John and Nemesis interacted and fell for each other was not doing it for me. The plot, while intriguing, fell flat with some odd choices.
I didn’t like anything about The Knight of the Moon and it saddens me that I have removed Gregory’s books from my TBR shelf. I don’t have enough time in the day to push on through something that doesn’t work for me. But this might be the perfect story for you, who’s to say?
Rating: 1/5