Ratings17
Average rating2.9
I'm sorry, but I just really couldn't get into this. The narrators were great, honestly, and made this story bearable. They brought life to each of the characters and, of course, multiple narrators is always a bonus with audiobooks. And, to be quite honest with you, the narrators are the only reason this didn't get one star.My problem is, this story is just so weird. So much of it doesn't make any sense at all and I imagine I'll be trying to wrap my head around it for days to come. Also, the plot is so terribly confusing. I honestly don't know what the point of this book was. The characters leave much to be desired. Wink is extremely annoying, Poppy is extremely unrealistic, and Midnight is like every other “chosen one” to have ever existed. I understand what Tucholke was trying to do with Wink, to make her this dreamy, vivacious character, but it was so overdone. Half the things Wink said or did made me groan. Poppy is supposed to be a popular mean girl. But she is as heartless as they come. And, honestly, I find it hard to believe that people like Poppy truly exist. Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like Tucholke took the popular girl stereotype and cranked it up from “bratty and cliquey” to “loathsome bitch”. And Midnight... Midnight was just okay. He wasn't special. Hell, he even had a sad little backstory like 99% of all “chosen ones”.The writing style was whimsical but terribly repetitive. I feel like half the things that happened in this book happened every 3 chapters or so. Such as, of course, Wink reading to the orphans. My god, it was practically every other Wink chapter. I also found it annoying when some of the POVs repeated events that had literally just happened. With the characters involved. It was as if Tucholke was trying to bump up the word count but didn't have anywhere else to go.Honestly, this wasn't the book for me. It was described as [b:The Raven Boys 17675462 The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) Maggie Stiefvater https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1477103737s/17675462.jpg 18970934]-esque, and I would have to whole-heartedly disagree.