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A review by mythaster
Bone Weaver by Aden Polydoros
2.0
Emily Woo Zeller is such a champ, an artist, a rockstar, but even her narration can’t save Toma from being an inconsistent character - sometimes she’s born-yesterday stupid, sometimes she’s oh so sweet and naive and loving and truthful, sometimes she’s hard and violent and cynical, and while I do think those attributes aren’t mutually exclusive, it takes a much defter hand than Polydoros’s to make it palatable. I just got so tired of Toma being whatever would make a scene more hokily dramatic, instead of being a real character. Vanya had so much potential (his magical power is really, really cool) but he felt very… hmm, Stiles Stilinski to Mikhail’s Scott McCall? Which is accurate because Scott is obviously the best boy and so is Mikhail, outside of his ever-so-cliche “wow I was just a dumb ignorant monarch but now that I’ve met one (1) commoner and seen one (1) riot I promise that I will be better and make everything right and no one will ever know what oppression or discrimination is again” shtick.
I don’t know, I just agree with all the reviews that said this book feels like a lot of not much until the last couple hours, and then it just… ends? No closure on, like, anything? Idk. I wanted to like this one a lot, but I didn’t even get as much poly vibes from it as everyone else seemed to. Or maybe that’s just because I don’t care about 2/3 of the three.
I don’t know, I just agree with all the reviews that said this book feels like a lot of not much until the last couple hours, and then it just… ends? No closure on, like, anything? Idk. I wanted to like this one a lot, but I didn’t even get as much poly vibes from it as everyone else seemed to. Or maybe that’s just because I don’t care about 2/3 of the three.