Take a photo of a barcode or cover
just_one_more_paige 's review for:
Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi
I received a preview excerpt of the first few chapters of this novel from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This is the first time I have ever read/reviewed an excerpt. It's a strange experience. I can say for sure that I enjoyed this first few chapters and DEFINITELY plan to read the rest of this book once it is published. It was a great and exciting start - already there is danger, a little romantic intrigue, beautifully begun world-building, multi-faceted characters that I am very interested in learning more about, and a fascinating pull on a mythical African-esque culture that I feel like is not widely enough represented in literature (in general, but also specifically in fantasy and YA fantasy).
I do hesitate to give a full 5 star review to the excerpt because I feel that I do not know enough at this this point. For one, as I mentioned, the world-building has started off really well (super and fantastically original). But there are a lot of details and I am still in the "learning" stage of reading this book. If it's fully rendered throughout the rest of the book then that will be fine (great, even), but depending on how much more we get (or not) will really affect my overall feel for the novel. I have similar feelings towards the character development. And honestly, plot-wise, so far it's definitely paced wonderfully, but it is possible that it's too run of the mill. It was fun to read, but nothing that hasn't been done before, in some way. So the way the characters and world get developed will be the greatest indicator of plot success (for me) and I don't have enough to go on there.
I realize that this is just an excerpt and so that's the nature of reading it, and it for sure peaked my interest enough that I WILL be finishing the book. So in that respect, it definitely did it's job! But for now, I will hedge my feelings with the 4-star review and look forward to hopefully bumping that up after I finish the rest!
This is the first time I have ever read/reviewed an excerpt. It's a strange experience. I can say for sure that I enjoyed this first few chapters and DEFINITELY plan to read the rest of this book once it is published. It was a great and exciting start - already there is danger, a little romantic intrigue, beautifully begun world-building, multi-faceted characters that I am very interested in learning more about, and a fascinating pull on a mythical African-esque culture that I feel like is not widely enough represented in literature (in general, but also specifically in fantasy and YA fantasy).
I do hesitate to give a full 5 star review to the excerpt because I feel that I do not know enough at this this point. For one, as I mentioned, the world-building has started off really well (super and fantastically original). But there are a lot of details and I am still in the "learning" stage of reading this book. If it's fully rendered throughout the rest of the book then that will be fine (great, even), but depending on how much more we get (or not) will really affect my overall feel for the novel. I have similar feelings towards the character development. And honestly, plot-wise, so far it's definitely paced wonderfully, but it is possible that it's too run of the mill. It was fun to read, but nothing that hasn't been done before, in some way. So the way the characters and world get developed will be the greatest indicator of plot success (for me) and I don't have enough to go on there.
I realize that this is just an excerpt and so that's the nature of reading it, and it for sure peaked my interest enough that I WILL be finishing the book. So in that respect, it definitely did it's job! But for now, I will hedge my feelings with the 4-star review and look forward to hopefully bumping that up after I finish the rest!