More Reading is Done
Apr. 7th, 2014 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
willow_25So, my first April book is finished. I picked this book up at a book swap, based on the fact that I read some of another series of books by the same author in 2013. The other series was very derivative, and I had heard this one was better, so when I had the chance to read the first book of the series for free, I took it. It was somewhat less derivative than the other books, but I found the problems with the author's style I had in the other books even more pronounced in this one. Mainly, that there is supposed to be a teen romance subplot, yet none of the teenagers seemed to be really into one another. The narrator/main character especially seemed to neither realize nor care that two boys were mildly interested in her. The sub plot did more harm than good being there, it was so poorly executed it should have just been removed.
Also, there were a bunch of loose ends and a few plot points that the narrator and the reader knew that no one else did, that later were brought up to other characters very awkwardly. And then the plot holes...Oh, the plot holes. At one point a character makes a point about saying that if you have one of these things, then you fit into a certain category of people. Then another character shows up with one of those things, and it's like suddenly no one knows that previous thing.
On the whole, not worth pursuing the series. I don't know why I'm going out of my way not to spoil this, I'd bet that anyone on my flist who was interested in reading it had read it last year.
Books Read, April 2014:
Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare
Total for January 2014 - 6
Total for February 2014 - 5
Total for March - 6
Total for April (So far) - 1
Total for Year - 18
Also, there were a bunch of loose ends and a few plot points that the narrator and the reader knew that no one else did, that later were brought up to other characters very awkwardly. And then the plot holes...Oh, the plot holes. At one point a character makes a point about saying that if you have one of these things, then you fit into a certain category of people. Then another character shows up with one of those things, and it's like suddenly no one knows that previous thing.
On the whole, not worth pursuing the series. I don't know why I'm going out of my way not to spoil this, I'd bet that anyone on my flist who was interested in reading it had read it last year.
Books Read, April 2014:
Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare
Total for January 2014 - 6
Total for February 2014 - 5
Total for March - 6
Total for April (So far) - 1
Total for Year - 18
