Apparently this book is a little divisive among my circle of friends: some loved it, some really didn’t. And unfortunately I am falling on the side of it not really being for me. Which is not to say I don’t love epic romances (The Song of Achilles is one of my absolute favourite books, after all!), but the story here wasn’t selling me beyond the initial concept. It’s a shame really, I found the premise to be so intriguing, but the overall experience quite lackluster […]
The Start of Something that Hasn’t Quite Found It’s Footing Just Yet
The Foxhole Court is the first novel of Nora Sakavic’s All for the Game, which gives an intriguing beginning for what is to come, but unfortunately does not really stand so well as a book on it’s own: it’s clearly just a buildup, and given it’s slim run of under 300 pages, I wonder if perhaps it would not have work to put the 3 instalments of the series into one novel with parts/books 1-2-3 all together? But that’s not my decision at the end […]
Enticing Cover and Art, but the Writing and Story Itself Could Be Worked More
This is a difficult one, because there is clearly a lot of emotion and depth to what the author is trying to do here, but the problem is that it just didn’t quite come through for me. Her illustrations and artwork are beautiful (that cover alone and the vibrant colours in it are stunning!), and it takes a lot of time and work to create both story and art for graphic novels, but this one here needed a lot more in order for it to […]
Beautiful Writing Throughout, but the Last Quarter or So Left Me Unsatisfied
I haven’t read any of Sarah Waters’ works previously, though I did get about 20 pages into The Fingersmith before giving up as the language was just really difficult for me to get into (I have seen The Handmaiden a few times already anyways, and do love that movie a lot). But I watched the film adaptation of The Little Stranger recently and thought it might be worth a shot! And The Night Watch sounded interesting enough: the interwoven lives, secrets, identities, and shames of various people set within the backdrop of WWII […]