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Bone Crier's Moon
by Kathryn Purdie
A book with an amazing premise that unfortunately didn't deliver all I was hoping it would.
The opening chapters are quite thrilling, the first few pages are very gripping and we are introduced to our main characters and the setting. As the chapters move on, unfortunately, I was losing my interest more and more and the fact that the characters had very little personality to them is to blame.
In a fantasy book, world building is key. We need to know the rules, we need to know the magic system, we simply need to know, if not all, at least some part of the backstory. This book didn't have world building and that made it difficult for me to really understand the world and the Ferriers and their rules and gods.
The book follows three different POVs and that's something else that hinder my enjoyment, not because I don't like first person POVs (which I don't), but because it made the writing style a bit clumsy. The reader reads every POV, so the reader knows everything that's going on. Each character though doesn't, so for example Sabine sees Jules walking in the woods. We know from a previous chapter, that Jules left to get provisions for their hide out. Sabine doesn't know that and what the reader reads is something alone the lines of "this must be the girl that helped abduct my best friend, why is she out?, Have they hidden her somewhere close?" etc. The reader has the answer to all this questions, so they clearly serve no purpose and it's a very tiring pattern.
Talking more about the characters, I think I needed more info about them to actually like them. Their exploration was very surface level and the romance also seemed rushed, because it wasn't showed to us. It just happened, we didn't see the feelings changes, which could have been easily done, since we get a separate POV for each of them.
All in all, it's a book that I didn't like not because of the story, but because of the execution. I think more world building, more character depth and a change in the POVs, so to avoid repetition, would have made this novel one of my absolute favourites.
The opening chapters are quite thrilling, the first few pages are very gripping and we are introduced to our main characters and the setting. As the chapters move on, unfortunately, I was losing my interest more and more and the fact that the characters had very little personality to them is to blame.
In a fantasy book, world building is key. We need to know the rules, we need to know the magic system, we simply need to know, if not all, at least some part of the backstory. This book didn't have world building and that made it difficult for me to really understand the world and the Ferriers and their rules and gods.
The book follows three different POVs and that's something else that hinder my enjoyment, not because I don't like first person POVs (which I don't), but because it made the writing style a bit clumsy. The reader reads every POV, so the reader knows everything that's going on. Each character though doesn't, so for example Sabine sees Jules walking in the woods. We know from a previous chapter, that Jules left to get provisions for their hide out. Sabine doesn't know that and what the reader reads is something alone the lines of "this must be the girl that helped abduct my best friend, why is she out?, Have they hidden her somewhere close?" etc. The reader has the answer to all this questions, so they clearly serve no purpose and it's a very tiring pattern.
Talking more about the characters, I think I needed more info about them to actually like them. Their exploration was very surface level and the romance also seemed rushed, because it wasn't showed to us. It just happened, we didn't see the feelings changes, which could have been easily done, since we get a separate POV for each of them.
All in all, it's a book that I didn't like not because of the story, but because of the execution. I think more world building, more character depth and a change in the POVs, so to avoid repetition, would have made this novel one of my absolute favourites.