I am not sure what I expected when I started this book. The cover was gorgeous and it reminded me of a cross between Alice in Wonderland and Willy Wonka. I liked the flow of the story and the writing was very descriptive.
The story is told in Scarlett’s POV and I will be honest in the beginning I wasn’t really liking her very much. She played by the rules and wouldn’t allow herself to take risks. I wanted to shake her a few times and tell her to stop being so safe, it was driving me crazy.
The cast of characters in this book had me all kinds of confused, I wasn’t sure if I liked them, trusted them or found them annoying.
The game was confusing and the explanation at the end sort of confused me even more.
The descriptions of things were delightful (this does not include world build, that was missing). Like colors and foods are described in whimsical detail.
Abusive father selling his girls to the highest bidder. It sort of seems like a common thing in these type of fairy tale books.
I wanted to know more, I felt like it left to much to your own thoughts. I have questions or what to know more details on things. The book has some vague backgrounds and it needed more of a world build. It has details but the world was a bit confusing.
The End totally confused me but I realize this is a series so I will have to see what happens next but it was still confusing
Overall this book was ok, I wasn’t blown away by it and it seemed to have a lot of hype when it first come out. I liked the characters to a point but I enjoyed the story more, even if at times I found it confusing or sort of all over the place. The amount of times it had to be explained what was going on made it even more confusing. At this point I really don’t know what was true and what wasn’t. I will for sure be checking out the next book in the series, I think the story has great potential and maybe it will be more present in the next book. I do recommend if you are looking for something different. This was an out of the box type of book.
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I have this one on audiobook so I’m hoping I can get to it soon.
Meh. I’m iffy on the genre anyway and then with all the confusion and unlikableness I think I’ll take a pass. I love the idea and if it was well done I think I’d be all about it but for now I’ll pass. Thanks for sharing!
Great review, to bad it didn’t blow you away but that happens!
It was more like someone blowing in your face and you looking at them like “why did you do that” 😉
Good review! I had tried this one before on Audio and DNF’d because while I love accents, I think the reader was doing like a gypsy style russian-esque accent and it was too much, it was annoying so I stopped, which I thought might have colored my opinion of the story. It seems like it’s being touted as this wonderful thing, the next Night Circus, but then everyone I am actually familiar with is more like, it’s just okay. I have it out from the library now to hopefully get to soon (no one is waiting on it, maybe that should tell me something), but maybe now with all of the just okay opinions, I can enjoy it for how it is, and not be disappointed in it by expecting it to be the next Night Circus, which it’s apparently not! 😉
I never read the Night Circus so I am not sure about that one. I have seen mixed reviews about it. I do want to read it.
That does seem like a lot and the story is very confusing, I don’t think I could listen to that accent and follow what is going on. LOL