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A review by defectivemoxie
Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch
2.0
Amazon touted Snow Like Ashes for fans of Game of Thrones, An Ember in the Ashes, and A Court of Thorns and Roses, but it's not.
1) The villains are laughable. Herod is sold as a man to be feared, a man who breaks a human into nothing before killing them. All these events of his past deeds are listed, yet it's told via a friend of a friend. There's no fear with him. Angra is the same. He came off as a temperamental child.
2) Meira is a Mary Jane. She spends the entire book looking for herself, trying to find how she wants to fit in. She is constantly saying that she wants to be herself, but she isn't herself until the end and stumbles upon the unexpected. Everything becomes hunky dory then.
3) The problems Meira faces are solved too easily. There's no tension to a resolution. The last 10 chapters this is rectified, but getting there was a chore.
4). Sir. I laughed at the name. I can't help it.
1) The villains are laughable. Herod is sold as a man to be feared, a man who breaks a human into nothing before killing them. All these events of his past deeds are listed, yet it's told via a friend of a friend. There's no fear with him. Angra is the same. He came off as a temperamental child.
2) Meira is a Mary Jane. She spends the entire book looking for herself, trying to find how she wants to fit in. She is constantly saying that she wants to be herself, but she isn't herself until the end and stumbles upon the unexpected. Everything becomes hunky dory then.
3) The problems Meira faces are solved too easily. There's no tension to a resolution. The last 10 chapters this is rectified, but getting there was a chore.
4). Sir. I laughed at the name. I can't help it.