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Sora's Quest
by T.L. Shreffler, Adam Lohnes
It is time to abandon ship me mateys!
I heard about this novel from Angela @ pooled ink who wrote a raving review. In fact, the review was so exuberant in its praise, that I immediately went and downloaded the novel, which was available for free on Amazon.
Now I had issues with this novel at the start. I didn’t like the prologue. But I thought to meself, “well, we are obviously not supposed to like the bad guy.” So I kept going. Then the novel proper started and we were introduced to the heroine.
The main character Sora was a whiny brat of a 17 year old. Yes, her father is a bit of an unlovable jerk but she didn’t seem to have the worst life. I mean, I get that she doesn’t want to marry. I was cool with that. However, she didn’t seem to have any other plans except to run away. And how she went about it didn’t seem that bright.
Now of course as she is attempting to run away, she is instead kidnapped by an assassin. I have a soft spot for assassin novels, so I got excited and thought that here is where it is going to start getting good.
Sadly that was not true for me. New characters kept getting introduced and I didn’t like any of them. Not only that, but the world building seemed almost non-existent and flat. Add to the fact that the group wanders in the swamp in seemingly circles for the majority of the novel and I just couldn’t take it anymore.
Now if I found the novel so irksome then why ye ask did I read to 79 percent? Because I somehow wanted to magically capture the reading enjoyment that Angela had. I mean, obviously she loved it and she quickly downloaded and gobbled up the remainder of the series. I kept thinking that if I kept reading the hook would catch me and the enthrallment would begin.
But this seems to be a case of this novel not being for me. I had to abandon the book and subsequently the series.
I am glad however that it has captured the fancy of other readers. So don’t necessarily take me word for it. Read the pooled ink’s contrasting viewpoint and if ye like to give this one a chance.
As always I find when people disagree with me reading tastes to be sort of fascinating.
If ye want to see me other reviews go to https://thecaptainsquartersblog.wordpress.com/
I heard about this novel from Angela @ pooled ink who wrote a raving review. In fact, the review was so exuberant in its praise, that I immediately went and downloaded the novel, which was available for free on Amazon.
Now I had issues with this novel at the start. I didn’t like the prologue. But I thought to meself, “well, we are obviously not supposed to like the bad guy.” So I kept going. Then the novel proper started and we were introduced to the heroine.
The main character Sora was a whiny brat of a 17 year old. Yes, her father is a bit of an unlovable jerk but she didn’t seem to have the worst life. I mean, I get that she doesn’t want to marry. I was cool with that. However, she didn’t seem to have any other plans except to run away. And how she went about it didn’t seem that bright.
Now of course as she is attempting to run away, she is instead kidnapped by an assassin. I have a soft spot for assassin novels, so I got excited and thought that here is where it is going to start getting good.
Sadly that was not true for me. New characters kept getting introduced and I didn’t like any of them. Not only that, but the world building seemed almost non-existent and flat. Add to the fact that the group wanders in the swamp in seemingly circles for the majority of the novel and I just couldn’t take it anymore.
Now if I found the novel so irksome then why ye ask did I read to 79 percent? Because I somehow wanted to magically capture the reading enjoyment that Angela had. I mean, obviously she loved it and she quickly downloaded and gobbled up the remainder of the series. I kept thinking that if I kept reading the hook would catch me and the enthrallment would begin.
But this seems to be a case of this novel not being for me. I had to abandon the book and subsequently the series.
I am glad however that it has captured the fancy of other readers. So don’t necessarily take me word for it. Read the pooled ink’s contrasting viewpoint and if ye like to give this one a chance.
As always I find when people disagree with me reading tastes to be sort of fascinating.
If ye want to see me other reviews go to https://thecaptainsquartersblog.wordpress.com/