I’ll be honest, this was a cover buy. Obviously because just look at
it! It’s stunning. I didn’t read the premise and went into it blind, so I
had no expectations whatsoever.
But… Unfortunately this book was still not my cup of tea. The pacing at the beginning was a little slow, with the first 100 pages mainly analysing death - I didn’t personally enjoy that aspect of The Fault in Our Stars and I didn’t enjoy it in this book either.
One thing I can positively say is that this book is completely unique, like COMPLETELY. And I have to give the author props for that since it’s so hard in literature now to be like that. I loved the world idea of Magonia and thought there was soooo much potential there in terms of what story could fit into it. I personally was a little disappointed and didn’t understand the half-bird-species-thing but I know a lot of people liked that aspect themselves. Maybe it was just me but I didn’t feel connected to many of the characters, just mainly reading to see what the story would turn out like at the end as
I felt like I was waiting around for something exciting to happen. It did, in the last 50 or so pages - which is where I finally started to enjoy reading this book due to the action, but the ending then mulled out once again.
But… Unfortunately this book was still not my cup of tea. The pacing at the beginning was a little slow, with the first 100 pages mainly analysing death - I didn’t personally enjoy that aspect of The Fault in Our Stars and I didn’t enjoy it in this book either.
One thing I can positively say is that this book is completely unique, like COMPLETELY. And I have to give the author props for that since it’s so hard in literature now to be like that. I loved the world idea of Magonia and thought there was soooo much potential there in terms of what story could fit into it. I personally was a little disappointed and didn’t understand the half-bird-species-thing but I know a lot of people liked that aspect themselves. Maybe it was just me but I didn’t feel connected to many of the characters, just mainly reading to see what the story would turn out like at the end as
I felt like I was waiting around for something exciting to happen. It did, in the last 50 or so pages - which is where I finally started to enjoy reading this book due to the action, but the ending then mulled out once again.
Overall I’ve given this a 2.5 ⭐️ - ONLY due to the fact that I
thought this story wasn’t for me. Some sentences in this books are just
beautifully written and so I’m not surprised that a lot of other people
love it.
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