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A Witch Called Red
by Sami Valentine
I wanted to like this book. I did.
I read a lot of indie urban fantasy, there is only so many best sellers around when you read 100+ books a year.
And normally I can forgive certain grammar errors or sentence structure when it comes to the indies... And I don't know if this book was simply more horrendously written than normal, or if the second person point of view just really threw me but I almost DNF this book multiple times.
I DID like the platonic male-female friendship in this book, that's somewhat rare. Not a single moment of flirting or innuendo between the two and I found that very refreshing.
I severely disliked how the book went from desperately wanting answers to who she is, to when a random dude calls her by another name her reaction is to play dumb and want to get the fuck out of there. I was expecting her to be crawling all over him for answers until
There were other minor plotholes that annoyed me,
And let us not talk about the whole getting triggered of a scene with women from the victorian era or whatever, but when someone claims she's the reborn woman from that era or something she's like "oh just a doubelganger, my having a ptsd freakout episode when seeing someone wearing clothes from that era can't possible mean I'm either a reborn someone, or some kind of being that is immortal or cheated death or whatever. Let's juuust ignore all the dreams about eras you can't possible have been alive for.
I read a lot of indie urban fantasy, there is only so many best sellers around when you read 100+ books a year.
And normally I can forgive certain grammar errors or sentence structure when it comes to the indies... And I don't know if this book was simply more horrendously written than normal, or if the second person point of view just really threw me but I almost DNF this book multiple times.
I DID like the platonic male-female friendship in this book, that's somewhat rare. Not a single moment of flirting or innuendo between the two and I found that very refreshing.
I severely disliked how the book went from desperately wanting answers to who she is, to when a random dude calls her by another name her reaction is to play dumb and want to get the fuck out of there. I was expecting her to be crawling all over him for answers until
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she got disappointed that the person he thought she was died a century or two ago.There were other minor plotholes that annoyed me,
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going from ptsd about vampires to making out with one? seemingly smart woman thinking that just because a vampire can feel empathy they're good and not a serial killer which means necking with one vampire is fine but obviously cant neck with the other one because HE can't feel empathy. And why isn't she more upset about the fact the person she is necking now used to be a famous serial killer? oh no nevermind, he's CHANGED now, that washes the blood off his hands. But apparently she has enough of a moral high ground that she freaks out about HER past self(potentially) being same-level bad??And let us not talk about the whole getting triggered of a scene with women from the victorian era or whatever, but when someone claims she's the reborn woman from that era or something she's like "oh just a doubelganger, my having a ptsd freakout episode when seeing someone wearing clothes from that era can't possible mean I'm either a reborn someone, or some kind of being that is immortal or cheated death or whatever. Let's juuust ignore all the dreams about eras you can't possible have been alive for.