Jurjen
This was a pretty huge miss. Basically nothing in the book worked for me. The characters and character dynamics felt flat, the way the story progression and some of the directions Novik took it in in the last third were strange, and the actual writing felt quite clunky at times. The most interesting part of this book is the conflict with the Woods, but even that felt underutilised, and had a pretty underwhelming ending. The romance was genuinely bizarre and somewhat disgusting. The last chapter was pretty cool though.
Had my eyes on Scholomance for a while, cus it seemed like it could be fun, but after this experience I’m not sure if I wanna try more of her work.
This was a pretty huge miss. Basically nothing in the book worked for me. The characters and character dynamics felt flat, the way the story progression and some of the directions Novik took it in in the last third were strange, and the actual writing felt quite clunky at times. The most interesting part of this book is the conflict with the Woods, but even that felt underutilised, and had a pretty underwhelming ending. The romance was genuinely bizarre and somewhat disgusting. The last chapter was pretty cool though.
Had my eyes on Scholomance for a while, cus it seemed like it could be fun, but after this experience I’m not sure if I wanna try more of her work.
